Performance hits on Windows

[Rebel Minion]

Hello All,

I do all my development on Mac.

Once the project is done, I then take it over to the windows side for a test drive to make sure everything looks and acts correctly.

I have just moved over to the windows side with a fairly involved solution. I would rate it as the most complicated solution I have ever done dual platform.

I am seeing a HUGE performance hit on the windows side.

I have tried optimizing on the windows side, but this did not improve the situation much.

Any tips/suggestions on getting the most out of this solution on the windows side?

NOTE: This is still a filemaker file, not yet made into an stand alone.

Thanks,

R

Edited January 30, 2006 by Guest

[stanley]

R:

First thing I would check is fonts. If your project contains fonts which are not on the Windows box, then it is doing substitutions on the fly.

Otherwise, where are you seeing the performance hit? Drive access? CPU cycling? I would check the performance metrics on the Win box & compare them to the Mac...

-Stanley

[Reed]

What things in particular are slow on the windows side?

Value lists? Portals? Searching/Sorting? etc....

[Vaughan]

Check all file references.

[Reed]

Also, if the slowdown is related to text entry in large text fields, check out this thread

[Rebel Minion]

The solution was originally created and intended only for use on Macs. The decision was made recently to take it over to windows. Having said that, I do try to stick with Arial, Verdana and New Courier for all my type faces. Just in case a solution needs to work efficiently on another platform. I can go back and recheck everything and make sure my fonts are all appropriate.

As for specifics on the slowdown, it seems like everything takes longer.

Changing layouts, is the most noticeable. In one case I have a synopsis screen that shows a portal with records and then I have a view details button. Clicking this takes a solid 6-10 seconds just to change the view. Because of the way this synopsis is setup, its not a simple go to related task, I actually have to do a find, then present the data.

[gdurniak]

please provide specs:

make, model, speed of mac / win machines, and version of FileMaker

is it hosted? run local?

running anti-virus on win?

[Rebel Minion]

Mac 500mhz G4 1 Gig Ram 10.4.4

Intel P4 3.2 ghz 2 gig ram WinXP Pro

Run local, no server involved.

Tried it with virus protection on and off, same performance either way.

FM8.02 Advanced

[Wim Decorte]

On that kind of Windows machine it should run faster than on the Mac. What exactly is going slower? What operations? Are you using a lot of non-FM native graphics on your layouts?

[Reed]

If you create a new file using one of the Filemaker template files, does that run more slowly on the Windows box? (Is it specific to your database or to that particular windows computer?)

[Vaughan]

Have you used lots of fancy graphics to pretty up the layouts? Were these done on the Mac?