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<tt>Friends,<br>
<br>
I am trying to speed up some index building and I all looking at
the environment to see if I can make any changes that might help.<br>
<br>
These run directly on a server (Windows Server 2008) to eliminate
network slowdowns, with no competition for CPU time except for
what Windows does itself in the background.<br>
<br>
The files are larger than 4,000,000 records and live on P:. <br>
Current settings for variables that might affect speed to my
thinking.<br>
PFTMP=P:\tmpC<br>
PFBIXBUILD=2 (suggestion is that 2 is for large files, and we
have been using this as the default)<br>
PFBIXNODESIZE=1<br>
PFNUMIXBUF=200<br>
PFNUMIXBUILD=200 my notes say this can be as much as 204800,
might that help?<br>
Please feel free to submit any others that I am overlooking if you
have suggestions. Also if there is some Windows adjustment we can
make if you have found one. We have to rebuild 16 indexes and it
is taking 6 hours to do it sequentially. That is 3 in one file
and 13 in another. I am afraid running them simultaneously will
not improve speed but I can try that to make sure. Unlike
Unix/Linux I have found Windows to be unable to handle
simultaneous jobs without decreasing the effectiveness of both.<br>
<br>
I expect with newer OS and hardware maybe these values can be
tuned to a better place. We are trying to transition to 5.8 but
we have to keep the current system working to have time to get the
stuff in place for that change.<br>
<br>
Any suggestions will be kindly accepted and I thank you for your
help. It is very hard to experiment when it takes so long to run
these and is environmentally affected.<br>
<br>
Nancy<br>
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