Re: Accessing a file in memory

["James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Patrick,

I read some of the other responses and started thinking (bad thing on a Monday
;)), but if you have enough memory to place the files into memory, then why
aren't they staying in cache?  So I'm not sure if you have enough memory for
SETOBJACC to work for you.

AFAIK, user space is just space and may not reside in memory.  Remember, under
single level storage disk and memory are the same thing.

If you don't have enough memory for SETOBJACC to work for you, I'm not sure that
making the files into tables would help much either.  You may just be changing
-what- is being swapped.

BTW, you mentioned that another company with the same software did it.  What was
their improvement in through put and do you have a similar HW configuration?

As a last resort, does the software provider have any solutions?

Contractor1@Parkdalemills.com wrote:

> We have a project where a few files are accessed a lot in a job stream and
> the job takes over an hour to run. We are looking for ways to speed up the
> process. We are wanting to load the few files into memory rather than
> accessing the files off the disk because we heard that a company that
> purchased the same software did the same. Can you advise us on what might
> be the best solution? User space, what?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Patrick Conner
> www.ConnecTown.com
> (828) 244-0822

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