filepro RAM limit

[John Esak]

If you were to take the time to go through the rather massive learning curve
of establishing a ramdisk under SCO with that extra 2Gb memory and assuming
all of your filePro and filePro data doesn't exceed that 2Gb, you could
actually load it *all* into the ramdisk for the nighttime "stuff"  and I
believe it would run yonks faster than constantly hitting the disks and disk
cache. Other than changing out your current drives for faster drives, there
isn't too much you can do to make i/o bound operations faster.  You should
have a RAID going on the Poweredge, so you're okay there for user stuff.
Like I said, maybe investigate a ramdisk, although I bet there aren't 1 in
200 people here who have used one or ever would use one. The logistics of
setting it up copying al lthe data to it, running your stuff, and then
putting all the stuff back to reglar disks for the daytime crowd make this
sort of thing not often worthwhile... but obviously getting your data,
indexing it, running report sorts and etc., all would happen many, many
times faster if done inside of memory rather than through spinning hard
drives. Electronics are magnitudes faster than hardware mechanics.

John Esak

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[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of
scooter6
  Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 9:28 AM
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  Subject: filepro RAM limit


  I have a customer who is running filepro 5.0.09R4 on a SCO OpenServer
5.0.5 platform --

  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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