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On 26-Jun-09, at 11:08 AM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Now, these two modules are bound by copy to virtually ALL our modules. With DSPMOD export and imports I calculate 1491 modules that import from both these modules. Does that mean that the total disk space occupied by these modules is around 1491 times the total of the two modules, ie 2925318144? I think that says nearly 3Gb. Does that mean I'd gain around 2.8Gb disk space with a service program?
Or am I just being na?ve as it's quitting time on a Friday?

Yes it does.

But more importantly, it means that when any two of these programs are in use at the same time (i.e. both active in the stack) you are using twice the memory _per_user_ - if five programs are in use that is five times the memory. Multiply that by your number of active users and you'll see that your memory usage (and therefore disk in terms of paging storage) are also significantly affected by this practice.

Service programs were invented to avoid the kind of scenario that your current practice creates. You are wasting significant disk space and significant memory by binding by copy instead of by reference. And you gain little or nothing.

Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com


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