filePro help needed...

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Brian K. White wrote:

> (clipping a lot) 
> 
> It does put a heavy new workload on your servers though. Image 
> processing is heavy cpu work compared to anything you normally do in 
> filepro, and it quickly fills up hard drives.
> At low volumes and low user counts you might not notice at first, 
> because you almost can't buy a server today that isn't over-spec for 5 
> or 10 users doing just ordinary filepro work, so you can add some more 
> work without noticing.
> But dealing with scanned images quickly adds up to tax a server once you 
> actually start using it a little.

While I can understand the heavy storage requirements on the server, I'm 
curious about the CPU-intensive part. What do you do with the image files 
on the server other than store them and feed them back?

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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