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Bryan,

The behaviour that you are seeing, slow the first time a file or group of files are accessed, is consistent with OS/400 behaviour. I suspect that the slowness is related to the LRU paging algorithm used by OS/400. Stated another way, if the file indices and the related contents are not used for an extended time, they get paged out of the system cash. Then, the next time you do a string search, both the indices an the file contents must be read back (paged) into cash. For large files, this paging may take a significant amount of time.

The only way that I've found to improve the performance in this situation is to periodically access the file to keep it paged into memory. This is not a good idea on busy systems as keeping the file paged into cash will slow down other processes.

Mike

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