filepro RAM limit

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting scooter6 (Fri, 11 May 2007 09:28:11 -0400):

> 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 ???

As others have stated, if you're not swapping, then adding RAM won't
have any affect.  (Wel, it may, as some O/Ses will use "unused" RAM
as a disk cache.)

However, since you're apparently talking about dxmaint and *report,
you may want to look up PFMAXALLOC and PFMAXASIZE:

    http://www.fptech.com/Products/Docs/FPFormat/envvars.shtml

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