Windows and mapping local drives (was Re: Help - our system (fp) just went down)

[Kenneth Brody]

On 1/27/2011 12:27 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
[...]
> One other performance inhibitor is using UNC as environmental variables when
> not necessary.  You can test this on your own system by creating to start-up
> files, one using standard variables and the other UNC.
[...]

Another performance hit on Windows is accessing local drives through a 
mapped drive letter.

For example, suppose your data is in "c:\shared\appl\filepro", and you have 
drive "S:" mapped to "c:\shared".

If you access the filePro files via "s:\appl\filepro", as opposed to 
"c:\shared\appl\filepro", you will take a tremendous performance hit.  (At 
least that was true on XP.  I haven't tried Vista or Win7.)

-- 
Kenneth Brody