Some clarifications...

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting John Esak (Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:54:08 -0400):
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> Now, our next question should be. Does having any of this stuff cause
> resoureces to be used up without need. Could they ever be detrimental...
> how about on a 256Mb RAM XP Pro system? For example, what if you had
> PFFILES=400 set in your config file. Any detriment? Any problems?

Well, running XP Pro with 256MB means you get what you deserve.  :-)
(Laura had someone bring in an XP Pro system for service a few days
ago.  It was a 600MHz P3 with 128MB RAM.  Talk about slow.  And that
was just booting it up.)

Well, remember that you had quoted above the fact that the Windows
version of filePro no longer has PFFILES, so setting it to a zillion
would have no effect.  :-)

However, for those settings that do cause more memory to be used by
filePro, setting them too high can be wasteful.  However, give how
small a footprint filePro takes in the first place, it's not likely
to have much of an impact on today's systems.  About the most you
could do would be setting the dxmaint configuration variables to
use 256MB of RAM and then build an index that actually needs 256MB
to build.

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