Hi Mark.

I remember that under 4.0, I upgraded a 922LX. It slowed down so badly that
I was asked to consider backing up to 3.0. Memory was so expensive for the
922 back then that I was able to work out a deal to upgrade to a 927lx (lots
of details left out but 3.0 was not an option by then). HP later had some
patches that made the machines with less memory run faster.

Do you have a performance tool (SOS, Glance) to tell you what the system is
doing? Looks like you have room for memory, and you know if you have room
for disk (let alone the budget). In my case on the 922, the swapping went
sky high (and disks will always fill to capacity).

If someone tries to force you back to 5.0, use the Y2K strategy on them, it
should get some cooperation.

Hope this helps!

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>I updated MPE/ix from 5.0 to 5.5 pp4 over the weekend. The process went
>fairly well and took about 6 hours. I was a bit displeased, however, to see
>my batch jobs taking up to 42% longer to complete, with the average being
>about 30%. YIKES! I expected to take a performance hit, but is this normal?
>We are running a 937LX with 128Meg of memory.
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>Mark Gross
>Emerson Motion Control
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