We have followed this up and tested it now but the setting of
LocalShare makes no difference.
...still open to suggestions....
Steven
On 21 Sep 99, at 8:54, Max Renshaw-Fox wrote:
> The stuff on borland.com is a little more extensive and essentially says
> that localshare substitutes internal handling of file-sharing for OS
> handling (particularly for peer to peer networks).
>
> I had to take another look at it recently when some Delphi-on-Paradox apps
> were seemingly hanging for no reason. It used to be required for multiple
> bde-apps on the same pc, hence the name, but I suspect that the
> "improvement", in later BDE versions, is only partial.
>
> Have you tried setting localshare to true, there is no noticeable
> performance penalty, because I believe it still helps separate concurrent
> processes.
>
> Max
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Wild [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, 20 September 1999 19:23
> To: Max Renshaw-Fox; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [DUG]: BDE
>
>
> We looked at that but the docs say Local share = true is for
> sharing data between a BDE and an non-BDE app at the same
> time.
>
> Both our apps are BDE apps.
>
> Any other ideas - the problem remains!
>
> Steven
>
> On 20 Sep 99, at 17:05, Max Renshaw-Fox wrote:
>
> > Would "localshare" help?
> >
> > Max
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of Steven Wild Sent: Friday, 17 September 1999 13:57 To: Multiple
> > recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: BDE
> >
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > In a situation where we have to use dbf tables and the BDE 5.1 we have a
> > problem when we have two applications running on the one machine and
> > both are accessing the bde. One of them is adding records to a table
> > with a bit over 4,000,000 records and 6 indexes in it and the other is
> > wanting to view records from the same table. THe one wanting to view is
> > forced to wait until the updating is finished.
> >
> > If the second app is run on a different machine but looking over the
> > network at the same tables it gets immediate access to the table while
> > it is being updated.
> >
> > Our conclusion is that the BDE can only adequately service one
> > application at a time and so it works OK over the network because each
> > app is using a separate copy of the BDE. Assuming that our conclusion
> > is correct how do we get the BDE to support two apps concurrently on the
> > one machine?
> >
> > Steven
> >
>
>
> Steven Wild
> Director
> Wild Software Ltd
> P O Box 33-216
> Christchurch, NZ
> Ph & Fax 64 3 377-0495
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P O Box 33-216
Christchurch, NZ
Ph & Fax 64 3 377-0495
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