Windows 2008R2 and filePro

[Stephen Prather]

Top Post:

Good Afternoon,

Here are a couple things that helped me when testing other programs in 
Windows 2008R2 on older hardware and in virtual machines:

Disable the drive file content indexing within Windows 2008R2 to prevent 
the OS from accessing the hard drive so much on its own.
     In Windows Explorer, right click on the drive that filePro is 
installed to and select Properties.
     Uncheck the box at the bottom of the dialog box that says: Allow 
files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties.
     Then click Apply.

Also if you do not have much physical memory in the server (less than 
2GB) make sure you have at least twice as much free disk space as you do 
physical memory for the OS page file.

Stephen Prather
MGM Industries, Inc.




Subject:
Windows2008R2 and filePro
From:
"Ryan Powers" <ryanx at indy.rr.com>
Date:
Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:40:56 -0400

To:
<filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>


I'm sure this question has probably come up before. I have a client of a
client, he has 5 workstations sharing a drive containing filePro 5.0.0.9 and
Java 1.6.

For years they were using Windows Small Business Server 2003 and everything
was running fine. They recently upgraded to Windows2008R2 (64-bit).

When one person is running the program, the speed is slower than before.
When more than one is using it, it slows to a crawl. Their IT guy has run
diagnostics and says that the server is hardly being tasked.

So, my client wants to know if this is a question of having to upgrade to
64-bit filePro. The IT guy of course thinks so, since "64-bit servers aren't
meant to run 16-bit programs".

I don't see the logic behind this unless the server is doing something
stupid in order to be backwards compatible with 32-bit I/O calls.

Any suggestions?


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