Re: [IUG] MSU live with WebPac Pro!

[Bob Duncan <duncanr at lafayette dot edu>]

At 01:17 PM 4/10/2006, Carl wrote:
> This was interesting, but is it always so slow?   I tried the link 
> below and did a catalog search where the search string contained 2 
> words, and finally abandoned waiting for a result just after 6 
> minutes had passed.   I then tried a second catalog search on a 
> search string with 1 word.  This completed in just over 3 
> minutes.  This seems awfully slow.   While these searches were in 
> progress, I did some internet searching elsewhere just to insure we 
> were not experiencing some network slowdowns on our 
> side...  everything was quite fast so I don't think there were 
> issues of that ilk.

Could be that several thousand IUG-ers are all trying to search MSU's 
system at the same time?  (It was speedy early this morning (EDT).)

Bob Duncan


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