Ok we finished the System resources comparison including Peak Memory usage and CPU time.

Very enlightening - 2Hippo is seriously hogging the system and eClinic seems to closest competitor to AllTalk.  Again though Alltalk wins hands down.

see http://www.galkam.com.au/downloadstats/downloadercomparison.htm

Thanks

Glen.

--- In alltalk-avp@..., "Glen Kleidon" <glenk@...> wrote:
>
> Woops.
>
> Of course the Table should show Memory Usage(Bytes) not (MB).
>
> Sorry about that one.
>
> Glen.
>
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> From: alltalk-avp@... [mailto:alltalk-avp@...]
> On Behalf Of lrs_y_gk_07
> Sent: Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:25 PM
> To: alltalk-avp@...
> Subject: [alltalk-avp] Comparison of System Resources Alltalk VS major
> Health Message Downloaders
>
>
>
>
> Once again thanks to Dr Conway, this interesting image was produced.
>
> http://www.galkam. <http://www.galkam.com.au/MemoryUsageComparison.jpg>
> com.au/MemoryUsageComparison.jpg
>
> This graphic shows the Windows Task manager displaying Memory usage.
>
> Dr Conway is a Paediatrician who has just about every health message
> downloader in Australia running on his laptop.
>
> This includes :
>
> * HealthLink
>
> * Medical Objects
>
> * Fetch (Sonic)
>
> * 2 Hippo
>
> * eClinic (Gribbles/VCS)
>
> * miLink (Radiology
>
> * MQLink (Symbion)
>
> * Argus (not running at the time of the test).
>
> and of course
>
> * Alltalk (with AVP)
>
> We brought up the Task Manager and sorted by Memory Usage:
>
> The 3 biggest memory users on the system were 3 of the downloaders! Medical
> Objects topping the list at 52MB followed by Health link (30MB) and Fetch
> (26MB). Argus was not running at the time of the test. I ran Argus Agent
> on my system an d found that it uses 27MB (not counting the Firebird DB
> instance) so it ranks at least in the top 3. For Medical Objects at least,
> the Backend Database is likely to be one of the Service Host applications (a
> database instance) and repres enting yet more usage.
>
> AllTalk ranked lowest memory user < 2.5MB and its interesting to note that
> MQLink uses 5.3MB just for maintenance (scheduler and cleanup), not
> including the actual send/receive process which was not running at the time
> of the comparison.
>
>
> App Memory Usage(MB) Ranking % of Memory Used*
> Alltalk 2372 1 1.25
> MQLink (management only) 5288 2 2.78
> miLink 5460 3 2.87
> Alltalk Virtual Printer 7428 4 3.90
> eClinic 15748 5 8.27
> 2Hippo 17388 6 9.13
> Fetch 26176 7 13.74
> Argus Agent 27816 8 14.61
> Health Link 30044 9 15.78
> Medical Objects 52728 10 27.69
> Total 190448
>
> Note: memory used referrs to Memory used just for downloaders
>
> AVP came in at 7.5 MB by itself so considering AVP + Alltalk together this
> comes to 9.8MB. Even still Alltalk+AVP ranks ranks 2 after miLink (excluding
> MQLink because the transfer agent was not included). I am not familiar
> with miLink (nothing found on a google search) but Dr Conway reports that
> its a radiology downloader. However, it does not support mulitple profiles:
> IE you must install it multiple times with multiple instances for e ach
> provider.
>
> Once again, we emphasise that the major Goals of AllTalk are:
>
> a) Small Footprint and Overhead
>
> b) ease of Installation
>
> c) Speed, Stability and Portability (remember it still works on Win 95!)
>
> d) Advanced functionality including Integration with practice software.
>
> This comparison demonstrates that Alltalk does indeed live up to our
> expectations using at between 1/22 and 1/12 the memory of the major
> competitors with similar functionality.
>
> We may soon have figures on CPU time statistics.
>
> Glen.
>