I'm just starting the process of upgrading my 60 dbs into FM7/8, but the FMS 7 speed when opening the converted files is concerning.

FMS 7 is running on a G5, dual 2GHz and 2Gb RAM but this is significantly slower WHEN OPENING FILES than FMS 5.5 (OS9) on a G4/450 and 512Mb RAM. All the latest upgrades have been applied to both systems.

Please understand that I know how to do the conversion so I already corrected the file references (not that these would affect FMS 7), however it takes 5 - 10 minutes to open the files, whereas FMS 5.5 has them (the originals) open in around 30 seconds.

I don't have FMS 8 (yet) so can anyone tell me if there is a performance improvement with FMS 8 when opening files. The operating performance appears okay.

Many thanks.

When you say that you "...corrected the file references..." did you actually consolidate them before conversion? The symptoms you describes are precisely those I would expect from the system seeking multiple references or missing references.

A couple of items to check further:

All disk indexing and Sherlock type searches turned OFF.

All OS Level file sharing OFF.

Running Server 7.0v3 or 7.0v4.

How much RAM allocated to cache?

HTH

Steven

Ideal, please clarify:

When you say the files are slow to open, do you mean slow to open in the Server Admin app, or slow for connecting clients to open?

I just remembered I didn't correct the file refs in ALL the files.

I didn't know you could consolidate the file refs BEFORE conversion - but thanks for the pointer, I'll let you know how it goes.

The slowness is in the SERVER ADMIN application - there is no problem with opening the files as a client once they are available.

Make more sense?