slow FP on windows

[Nancy Palmquist]

Richard D. Williams wrote:

> I have only one client still using FP for dos/windows.  They have a win 
> 2000 server.
> I don't do a lot of work for this client, but I have noticed extremely 
> slow performance when posting to any file.
> 
> PFDSK is set to the shared drive of F:.  Filepro resided in F:\fp and 
> filepro files in F:\filepro.
> 
> Is there some other environment variable I should set.  This thing takes 
> 5 mins. to post 379 records. The processing table is only opening one 
> file and creating a new record for each source record.
> I did not write the code, but I can see no reason this should take so 
> long.  In SCO or RH, it would be a 30 sec - 1 min. process.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Richard D. Williams
> 
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Richard,

It has to drag the data for each record off the server - back to the 
client - process and then send it back to the server to write.  If the 
same process is quick when it is run from the server directly, it is 
your network speed that is at issue.

Basic difference in OS logic for Unix and Windows Network stuff.

Nancy

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