filepro RAM limit

[Keith F Weatherhead]

Scott,

Were you using swap heavily?  That (adding RAM) would probably have
a bigger impact during the day with users logged in than for nightly
processing if the system is otherwise dry.

If not, especially the nightly processing may be disk bound not
memory bound?  Adding RAM might give you some more I/O buffers, if
configured properly, but won't do much if the disk subsystem is
saturated.
Have you tried Tune-Up or some other system analyzers, or did you
just take a SWAG at RAM being the issue?  You might be chasing the
wrong tail...?

Regards,
Keith


On Fri, May 11, 2007 8:28, scooter6 said:
> I have a customer who is running filepro 5.0.09R4 on a SCO
> OpenServer
> 5.0.5platform --
>
> Hardware is a Dell Poweredge Server - 2.4GHz processor
>
> Everything has been working great for about 3 yrs now -- I decided
> to
> upgrade their RAM -- they only had 512MB -- so, I'm at client's site
> --
> ordered 2GB from Dell and installed it last night -- everything
> booted fine
> and ran a couple of processes last night - including some indexes -
> and it
> seemed a bit faster - just not REALLY faster like I would have
> thought --
>
> During their series of night time processes that runs nightly, it
> wasn't any
> faster at all to complete -- still takes about an hour and a half
> ???
>
> Anyone have any suggestions on why the filepro processes wouldn't be
> noticably quicker to run ???
> Thanks
>
> Scott Ullmann
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