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Sean Larabee wrote:
Re: Interface to Peachtree (tangent)
From: Shawn Hogan
Date: Wednesday, May 5, 1999
Time: 11:41:23 am
>*swoon* We're around the 60,000 mark for invoices and payments. Those
>are two that just grow every month and are taking noticably longer to
>import the old data from. At least our file size to amount of data ratio
>is about the same as your example.
>
>Yeah, same machine. Kill the clients, stop the server and let the hosting
>box become the upgrade box for the duration. Is rather disruptive for the
>office and likely means that future upgrades will require me coming in
>during the wee hours. (Ok ok, so that's the real reason why I am suddenly
>concerned about upgrade times.)
>
>I do have a PII400 sitting behind me that is going to become a new
>database server in the next couple days. I'll copy the datafiles over and
>do a test upgrade to see how more modern hardware affects the time.
Let me know how it goes...
Also, what type of I/O system are you using for the hard drive(s)?
I would definately recommend SCSI if you aren't doing so, simply because
IDE drives are very CPU intensive, so reads/writes hog a huge chunk of
the CPU time, while SCSI does not. That, and SCSI drives are generally
more reliable and higher performing. :-)
- Shawn
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Shawn D. Hogan
President, Digital Point Solutions
http://www.digitalpoint.com
(619) 452-3696
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