Slow performance when running non-swing Application?

I created a very simple GUI Application with some buttons. The App is sitting on a UNIX box and I am running it from my local PC. I have Hmmingbird Exceed running. It seems to come up very slowly. I am specifically not using any swing components. Is this normal? Anything I can do to speed it up? Thanks...

Regardless of whther it's a Java or a Hummingbird
issue, I think this is a valid place to ask for help
about this since the odds of there being someone else
here having conquered this same problem would be
rather high.Yep, people have the problem. I have had the problem. I haven't seen anyone that claims a solution.
>
I would also guess that there isn't much of any wayto speed it up.
What I don't understand is why the behavior of the
Java app on the Unix box is quite fast and yet the
redraw on the Exceed clent is excruciating slow. This
effect does seem to be present with our older apps
written in other languages.
Why would Exceed treat a Java app differently than one
written in any other language? I don't get it.
I believe someone at some time suggested it has to do with the way java interacts with the unix environment. But my memory on the subject is very fuzzy and the person explaining might not have known what they were talking about.
Of course I question the wisdom of running a GUIapplication written > in a language that is portable
across platform via a remote access
program in the first place.What is so unwise about it? The customer will run the
app in Unix. I have a PC on my desk. I use exceed to
connect to a Unix box to test behavior in Unix on my
PC. Sounds wiser than walking halfway accross the
company to sit in front of the Unix box.
Testing, of course, should only be done in the environment that will actually be run.
Admittedly I might be overly sensitive to this as I worked on a project where a customer complained about the same thing. Given that the contract did not specify running via hummingbird there was no grounds for complaint.

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Cloning context file on db tier fails when run non-interactively

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Target System Port Pool [0-99] : RC-00201: Error: Not a valid port pool number
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s_dbhost = dxd1db01-ib
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outfile=$NEWCTX \
pairsfile=$PAIRSFILE \
initialnode
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echo \$dummypw | perl ./adclonectx.pl \
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template=$ORACLE_HOME/appsutil/template/adxdbctx.tmp \
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pairsfile=$PAIRSFILE \
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Any ideas, it's got 3 DBAs stumped...

That makes sense to me ... the pool parameter should be in the pairsfile, .. or in the parameters when calling it at command line
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Core dump when running the Proc Application

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This forum is about C programming in general, and about using Oracle Studio C in particular.
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You mention "Proc" and ProC". If you are referring to the Pro*C compiler, that would also be a database question, since the Pro*C compiler is not related to Oracle Studio or Oracle Studio C.
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https://forums.oracle.com/forums/category.jspa?categoryID=18

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Classpath : /u01/prodapps/prodcomn/util/java/1.4/j2sdk1.4.2_04/jre/lib/rt.jar:/u01/prodapps/prodcomn/util/java/1.4/j2sdk1.4.2_04/lib/dt.jar:/u01/prodapps/prodcomn/util/java/1.4/j2sdk1.4.2_04/lib/tools.jar:/u01/prodapps/prodcomn/java/appsborg2.zip:/u01/prodapps/prodcomn/java
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Slow Performance When Application is Slow

We have an application that unfortunately appears to eat up system free memory over time. When the load increase and memory decrease we also see that all queries against Oracle slow down dramatically doing a lot of physical reads. (Oracle runs on a separate server from the application.) When we restart the application memory is freed up on the application server and Oracle queries run very fast. However, over time they both slow down again. Again, we only restart the application not Oracle.
Does anybody have any idea why a slow application would result in slow query times? We measured the slowness and it is indeed all in the query execution. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
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when you execute it from toad, do you get all the rows back, or just a screen full and call it quits? if you don't actually page through all the rows, then they aren't really returned, and oracle wouldn't need to do as many reads.
 
you can also check v$sql to find out if both toad and your application are really using the same sql. perhaps there's an "alter session set current_schema" going on somewhere that is changing things (granted, it's probably not that, but my point is that it could be something).
 
maybe toad and the application have different optimizer modes (all_rows vs first_rows) which result in a different plan, and therefore different amounts of physical read.
 
you can try these scripts from my blog to check "What is actually running right now?". Start with the CURRENT_SQL script to get the address and child number of the running sql. even if two connections run the exact same sql statement, there could be differences (mentioned above) which would result in different children.

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We have CRS XI R2. I developed a report that contains several on-demand sub-reports. The report and sub-reports are very fast when run directly from CRS. However, when I run from ASP (users run a link from the intranet), it takes 4 times longer (1 second on CRS, vs. 5-10 seconds on intranet). The report takes longer, bringing up a sub-report takes longer and paging through sub-reports take longer. What can be done to improve the speed of the report that is using the ASP code? I used a sample program provided at this support site to develop the report and it is pretty basic code. The only time I have a problem is when I have many sub-reports. Since they are on-demand, I do not know why this would matter.

This has been created as an incident with SAP support. Things that you will want to check is making sure that you handle the postback to the code as you do not need to run your entire code on every postback. This will help performance after the original load.
One other thing is to compare performance with the viewer within Infoview that uses the same backend server as your application, ie PSReportFactory uses the page server, so you'll want to test with the DHTML viewer. RAS code (reportclientdocument) uses the Report Application Server so you will want to test with the Advanced DHTML viewer.

What are the requirements to run a Swing application?

I'm trying to send a simple swing application to a friend that has Mac OSX, but the buttons don't show up.
Do people actually need the Java SDK in order for swing apps to work? Or is plain java enough? (He has normal java, because we play minecraft sometimes)
Anyway, my buttons are not showing up on his computer, not even when I use the cross platform look at feel

Here is the code I'm using, it's an application that makes the user select a folder and stuff will happen to it.
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import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFileChooser;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException;
public class SomeGUI extends JFrame implements ActionListener, Runnable
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    public JButton run;
    JPanel panel;
    JFileChooser chooser;
    String returnpath;
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Ridiculously Slow Performance when Movie Scoring - brand new macbook

Hello there guys ! Sorry for my bad english, i will try to do my best.
The title almost says it all. I have a brand new Intel Core Duo Macbook (White, 2ghz, 512 ram, I haven't added any extra ram or anything).
The machine is blazing fast, I am really loving the experience. But when it comes to using a feature I would love to use everyday, it disappointed me. The movie score feature in Garage Band 3. So, I create a very simple movie in iMovie HD 6, capturing video from my fireware camera.
It is a very simple video, no soundtracks, just the original sound that came with the camcorder footage. No stills, reverse, slow-motion, effects or anything. Plain video with sound, just the way it came from the camcorder.
The problem is when creating a movie scoring project with that footage in garageband 3 , the performance is RIDICULOUSLY SLOW. I mean, I press space and the movie strats playing after 1,5 seconds, and the video is halting every other second. It is so laggy that when i press space again to stop the video, the motion continues for another 1,5 seconds until it pauses.
There's absolutely no way to do any work in conditions like that. And the strange thing is that when using garage band to do other stuff, or when working in iMovie with that same movie there's no lag at all. I have even edited 30 minute long videos with effects and soundtracks in iMovie and it was blazing fast, no lag, no halting.
But in Garagaband even the simplest of all videos gets this ultra-slow performance, and it makes me wonder why.
- I have tried desabling recording on the audio track in garageband. I have tried to lock the track. I have done all the steps in the optimizing garage band performance in the help. I don't have firevault activated.
Any help ? Does anyone have a macbook just like mine that is able of doing moving scoring ? Because EVERYTHING ELSE is ultra fast, including video and audio editing, but when movie scoring it *****.
Apple Macbook 13inch 2.0ghz Core Duo 512 60GB White SuperDrive Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Ha! It's funny really - you say it all yourself; no extra ram, it doesn't come with enough to run Pro Apps and when you start to use the Scoring feature you are accessing two different functions - playing movies and music tracks - movies are always a stress unless they are very small and the Right Codec - so first up - what format is your movie? Do you have Quicktime Pro? if the answer is No - get it, it's not expensive and it gives your machine many extra abilities - you can then convert your footage to something easy to play.
How many tracks are you working with?
Get more RAM - MacIntel or MacPro needs 4-6 gigs to multi-task happily - with only the base load of RAM it can't.
I have a DP 2 Ghz G5, no where near as fast as yours but I have 4.5 GBs of RAM and a fast graphics card with 512Mbs VRAM - this means Motion and FCP can fly.
We are about to get a MacPro 2.66 Dual with 6 GBs RAM, essential.
Hope this helps.

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