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<DIV><SPAN class=350564618-11052007><FONT face="Courier New"><STRONG>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.</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=350564618-11052007><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New">John
Esak</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com@lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com@lists.celestial.com]<B>On Behalf
Of </B>scooter6<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 11, 2007 9:28 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
filepro-list@lists.celestial.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> filepro RAM
limit<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>I have a customer who is running filepro 5.0.09R4 on a SCO OpenServer
5.0.5 platform -- </DIV>
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<DIV>Hardware is a Dell Poweredge Server - 2.4GHz processor </DIV>
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<DIV>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 --
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<DIV>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
???</DIV>
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<DIV>Anyone have any suggestions on why the filepro processes wouldn't be
noticably quicker to run ???</DIV>
<DIV>Thanks</DIV>
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<DIV>Scott Ullmann</DIV>
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