If I recall correctly, the teacher I had in NC told me that each additional
user interface takes up about 100 meg of memory per session and I believe
that may have been referring to Solaris.

Here at John Hancock, we had run into problems with running out of memory
with 5.1.2 for Solaris so we backed off to
5.1.1 and got some help from support in the way of a patch to fix a
different problem.

Our current configuration for our Production NetView Server is a Sun
Enterprise 3000 running Solaris 2.5.1 with all patches
applied and 2048 Meg of memory.

Everything has been running fine without a problem for almost 2 months now
and Operations can bring up 11 sessions if they
need to.

Dave

P.S.  You may want to look into the web interface piece for some of your
users, it takes up 10 times less resources than
an x-session would.  I also "heard" through the grapevine that the next
version web interface is supposed to be a greatly
improved product.

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   FITZINGER Richard [SMTP:richard.fitzinger AT IT-AUSTRIA DOT COM]
        Sent:   Tuesday, December 07, 1999 5:52 AM
        To:     NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
        Subject:        memory usage

        We have noticed that every time a user interface is started
(NetView/AIX
        5.1.2) the real memory usage increases about 200 MB. The last time I
read
        about NetView's memory usage was in rel.4.1. (I think it was 32 MB
for each
        GUI). Does anybody know about benchmark test results from version 5?
Is
        there any suggestion regarding to memory? Will the ovw process free
parts of
        its reserved memory if another process is in need of memory?

        Any help would be appreciated.

        Regards, Richard