(CAS) filePro Speed on Windows 200x Server

[Chris Sellitto]

Hello All,
I have a question that has been nagging our company for years now, but we just put up with it. I will give you some background information to hopefully help you maybe diagnose the issue. For years we ran on a Novell 5.x NOS, using filePro 4.X. All workstations were a mix of Windows 98/98se/XP. All ran relatively quick. We then upgraded to filePro 5.X, and noticed a slight degrade in the speed, but nothing we could not deal with. When we moved locations, we decided to change over from Novell to Windows 200x servers. It was then we noticed a significant downgrade in the speed of filePro. A perfect example of this is when I created a process to read in a .CSV file and export it into a filePro 5.x file (without indexes). In approximately 3 hours time it had only created 30 some odd thousand records out of the 500,000 that needed to be exported. I stopped the process, and started it up on one of our test machines (also a Windows 2000 server) running a filePro 4.8 version. Not only did it run fast, it imported 9 files, of the same amount of records, in about an hours time.

My question is, is there anything that any of you could think of that we could do, or check that could possibly help make filePro 5.x run faster on a Windows 200x server? If you need more answers to any questions, please feel free to ask.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Below is a copy of our config file

====================== START OF CONFIG ====================================
 printer1=wareh,EPSONFX,
 printer2=laser,HPLASER4,
 printer3=office,IBMPRO,
 pfprinter=newhp
 prefix=gr
 pfver=on
 abe=ascii
 pfedfailbox=on
 printer4=shiplab,IBMPRO,lpt2
 printer5=newhp,HPLASER4,lpt1
 printer6=receive,IBMPRO,
 printer7=fax,IBMPRO,g:\faxauth\fcover.txt,fileforfaxing
 printer8=temp,HPLASER4,c:\temp.txt,generaltemp temp file
 pftoksize=200000
 printer9=indlbl,IBMPRO,com1:,rollerindates
 pfbreak=old
 pfcmark=50
 pfclock=off
 pfnet=on
 pfhcff=on
 pfign=acdefhjwz
 pftmp=c:\fptemp
 printer10=presrt,ibmpro,lpt1,presort process lpt1
 printer11=prsrt3,ibmpro,lpt3,presortprocesslpt3
 printer12=temp,nocodes,c:\nocode.txt,general temp file
 printer13=form222,epsonfx,lpt1,Form222Controlslpt1
 printer14=indlbl2,ibmpro,com2:,rollerindates
 printer15=arslabel,okiml321,lpt3,ars label printer
 pffiles=25
 pfretry=50
 pfsync=All
 pfautoksize=125000
 pfformtoksize=200000
 pfdropshadow=on
 pfnohelp=on
 pfshowwinerror=on
 PopupNormal=0x3f
 PopupInverse=0x1f
 MenuNormal=0x17
 MenuInverse=0x4f
 HelpNormal=0x5f
 HelpInverse=0x74
 ErrorNormal=0x4f
 ErrorInverse=0x70
 Colors:
 	TextNormal=0x17
 	TextInverse=0x4f
====================== END OF CONFIG ====================================

Our environment variables are as follows...
PFDATA=G:
PFDIRFILTER=OFF
PFDSK=g
PFNET=on
PFPROG=g:

G: being our mapped drive.

Thank You
Christopher Sellitto
VP Computer Operations
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