TU2 Win 98 Long Load Time

[bnkrazy]

Hi, I have TU2 deployed on a Win98 vmware virtual machine with 128MB ram showing 82% resources free. There is litteraly nothing on this virtual machine but our application and true update. TU1 loads in about 3 seconds on this same VM. As soon as I converted to the TU2 updater, the load time increased to about 55-60 seconds for the update window to show in the task bar and another 10-12 seconds to actually show the window. (about 1m10s total)

Also, after client scripts are updated and it "needs to be restarted", it again has the 60 second delay. Actually, any time the update is started it shows this delay. What is also interesting is the log file shows no entries during the delay. It is as if the app is paused for a minute and then goes on as usual. Once the first screen is displayed, there is very little if any delay compared with a Win XP Pro machine. The same update package loads in about 2-3 seconds on a WinXp Pro 'real' machine as well as Xp VM's... I am somewhat baffled.

Has anyone else experienced this (I didn't find anything on a search)?

Chris Walsh
DevExtreme Software (http://devextreme.com)

[Mark]

Hi bnkrazy,

I have not heard any reports of other people having issues like this one Windows 98.

Since you have converted this project, perhaps it is the converted actions that are giving you these problems. Try creating a TrueUpdate 2.0 project that simply shows a screen and then exits. Now run this on Windows 98 and see if the problem is still there.

Hopefully this test will help us determine what this issue may be.

[bnkrazy]

Hi Mark,

Sorry for the poor wording above...I didn't convert the old project because I was aware that most things needed to be done manually anyway. I built it using the TU2 wizard because I wanted to know what was in there (and that I had put it there...etc.)

I will definately do a small sample project and see what happens, but it will be later tonight before I can get around to it. Thanks for the response. Are you ever NOT online? :)

[bnkrazy]

Well, apparently I do have something in there that is causing the delay...the 'straight-from-the-wizard' package loads in the expected < 3 seconds...about 1.5s actually. :)

I will go through the code and see if I can find it. When I do, I will place the offending code here in case anyone else runs up against this in the future.

[bnkrazy]

Well, I can't see that it is my code causing any issues...
When I run a project using the wizard defaults it loads fine...however, the slight modifications to the default script that I made should not cause the 1+ minute delay...so I will have to call in the help of the almighty IR support team...

[Mark]

Hi bnkrazy,

In the project that takes 1 minute to load on Windows 98 are you using adding any HTTP.TestConnection() or HTTP.GetConnectionState() actions? I ask this because there are some known slowdowns that can occur on networked Windows 98 machines that have had their network cord pulled.

Also to answer your earlier question, I am generally not online whilst I sleep.