FM crashing during looping script

[Kent Searight]

Hi all,

I have a looping script that inserts files (physical files, not refs) into a container. Before the script finishes the insertion of its 3990 files it crashes.

I'm thinking that this must have something to do with the File Cache size and/or Saving Cache Contents, which can be specified in Preferences. Can anyone offer some insight as to how I can remedy this?

FYI Script exits loop properly, so I know that isn't the problem. Also, toward the end of each loop is a "Commit Record" step. I thought that step would remedy it, but it didn't.

Thanks in advance for any help offered!

[Vaughan]

Try putting a "flush cache to disk" step in there somewhere.

[Kent Searight]

Hi Vaughan,

Thanks for the suggestion!

Would you suggest I do that after every X number of records? I don't want to do this for every record, do I?

[Vaughan]

Flush Cache will probably be a significant performance hit: I'd expect it to take a couple of seconds to perform. So run it every 1,000 records or so.

Heck, you could try getting it to flush just at record 3989 and see if it makes a difference. :

[Kent Searight]

Thanks, Vaughan!

I'd already set it to flush cache every 300 records and that got me through the script just fine. This is a one-time script that will never run again, so performance wasn't a big concern.

Thanks again, you were a big help!