Tuesday, November 1, 2011

64-bit goodness?

so I've been doing load testing with emprix eload/oracle application testing suite. among the many issues I've had with it: running out of heap on the. controller and agent process

starting in version 9, they switched from a fairly light install ) about 400 meg ) to a rather hefty 1.5gb download. they used to run jboss 4 ( which was old at the time anyway but! ) and was 100% windows based. also was only 32-bit

starting in 9.2 they posted some support for 64-bit. I've regularly had oom issues on both the controller and the agent. because its 32-bit I'm restricted to 2gb heap which is a shame. their support tech tells me "well, you clearly need more heap - upgrade the hosts to 64-bit windows and that should fix your problem

I ran the upgrade, 64-bit 2008R2. guess what, installed 9.3 ( latest as of today ) and it's ..... 32-bit. great ;) opened a ticket 24 hours ago and guess what - no response yet ;) I'm so shocked!