slow FP on windows

[GCC Consulting]

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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Richard D. Williams
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:27 AM
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> Subject: slow FP on windows
> 
> 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

Just curious, what version of FP are they running?

I had a problem with 4.8.10, or was it .12 , at a client site.  After doing the
upgrade, the system slowed down.  Outputs with select processing which took
under 3 minutes to select records from a 250,000 record file was taking over 1/2
hour and printing even slower.  I ended up running the reports using 4.8.3's
rreport in stead on the 4.8.10 one.

The upgrade to 5.0 fixed the problem.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting