In
<3160F43450DED01196DC00805FA632AA01400A16 AT msgmsp4.norwest DOT com>,
on 02/23/98
   at 11:48 AM, "Glass, Peter" <Peter.K.Glass AT NORWEST DOT COM>
said:

>Some of our NT and Windows 95 clients complain that when
>they call up their GUIs to to a file restore, they
>sometimes have to wait for as long as 6 hours for the
>directory tree backup display to open up.
> The restores themselves run very quickly-it's getting
>there that can be an all day affair. We had been running
>Expire Inventory during normal business days, when these
>clients are also active. We rescheduled this process to run
>during off hours. Though some improvement has been noted,
>this process is still taking hours to do.
> Does anybody have any ideas on this? We are currentlty
>running ADSM V2 Release 1 Level 0.13/0.13 from an MVS
>server. We currently service about 285 clients from a
>variety of platforms, with a DB of approximently 15Gb. In
>all other respects our Server seems to be performing great,
>with cache hits consistently above 98%.
>Any comments would be helpful.
>Thanks!
>Peter Glass
>Norwest Services, Inc.

You have run into a 'broken as designed' issue which is
fixed in the version 3 client.  What is happening is that
the client is getting information about the entire tree from
the server and building the tree before displaying anything.
In v3, the client displays a collapsed tree and only gets
info from the server as you expand the tree.

If you can't move up to the version 3 client soon, and there
are issues with it, be sure your users are selecting just
the filespace they want if they have multiple filespaces,
and are not asking for inactive files if they don't need to.
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Bill Colwell
Bill Colwell
Draper Lab.
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