Windows 2008 SBS 64-bit

[John Esak]

Ryan,
Tim has proven a strange thing to jme over and over. I wouldn't have
believed it if I didn't see it myself.  I'm not sure if this is your issue,
but you might as well be cognizant of it anyway.  Apparently, there is some
different methodology to writing files and their sizes and etc., etc. on the
Windows file systems and O/S's. If you allow a file to grow record by record
and there are lots of olks adding new records to the end of the file
regularly, the slowdown is actually VERY noticeable.  So, Tim's workaround
(and indeed filePro's old workaround from the days when this was ubiquitous
behavior) is to pre-expand the file by a hundred thousand records or
whatever value won't be reached quickly.  Then it's not a matter of actually
growing the file with each new record addition as you know. It's just
indexing out to the record and filling in space that's already there.

Now, on Unix, and Linux this simply is NOT an issue at all.  Could it be
what it hassling you though?

Nancy, has lots of experieince with Windows... So does Richard Kreiss.


John
 

> -----Original Message-----
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m] On Behalf Of Ryan Powers
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 3:18 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Windows 2008 SBS 64-bit
> 
> I have a question from someone regarding the platform stated 
> in the subject
> line.
> 
> A filePro user "upgraded" to this system and the performance dropped
> dramatically.
> Does anyone have any experience with this platform or the 
> issue? Is there a 
> solution?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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