Slowness Issue

[nelliott]

We're using FM Server on Win2K but when I'm running long scripts other PCs on the network are hanging - Any ideas on how to resolve this problem.

Thanks

Nick

[Kurt Knippel]

From what machine are you running these "long scripts" and what are those scripts doing?

[nelliott]

I am running the scripts on one of the PC's on the network, FMServer is on a separate PC containing only the operating system and FMServer.

The scripts check for duplicates, delete records and perform finds etc

Nick

[Kurt Knippel]

Break this long script up into smaller parts and see which part is causing the problem. It could be a poorly written script, or perhaps your process is just causing so much network traffic that you need to consider running it after hours.

Do you use a switch or just hubs for connecting your ethernet? Switches will reduce the amount of network traffic since they send the information ONLY between the computers that are talking, rather than to all computers as in the case of hubs.

Also on your server reduce the number of files and users down to only what is needed to support your current needs. It is possible that the server is need to devote extra threads and such to users and databases that are not there.