filepro RAM limit

[scooter6]

No - I actually didn't omit the OS -- it's right above where you posted that
I hadn't
It's SCO OpenServer 5.0.5

This Dell uses a Perc RAID controller and has 512MB L cache when it boots --

Are you saying if this was put in a system that had a faster bus and faster
RAID throughput that the results would be faster??  Just wanting to clarify
what you're saying

Scott



On 5/11/07, Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 09:28:11AM -0400, scooter6, the prominent pundit,
> witicized:
> > 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
>
> I note you omit the OS...which would be relevant to this discussion in
> some
> circumstances.
>
> > 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
>
> Well, if your benchmark is rebuilding indexes and doing reports, you've
> upgraded the wrong components.  Those tasks use very little memory by
> comparison, and your main bottleneck is disk I/O speed--especially on an
> index rebuild, since that's almost all disk I/O.  Faster drives and bus
> speeds would help.
>
> The key is whether or not you were maxing memory usage to begin with.  If
> you weren't, then upgrading the amount of RAM is meaningless for this
> use--a waste of money.  The only way more RAM will increase speed is if
> you're going into swap before an upgrade and not needing swap after it.
> fP is a low-memory-consumption application, mostly affected by how many
> instances of its programs are running concurrently.  First place to look
> is
> not RAM, it's hard drive throughput and performance.
>
> mark->
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