When you work locally, the primary processing choke points are CPU clock speed, bus speed, and hard drive read/write transfer rate. Swap file available space and hard drive available space also come into play, but we're comparing local to network access.
When you work over a LAN, the transfer rates are much, much less than clock, bus, and drive head. TCP/IP retransmits dropped and corrupted packets, network traffic has an impact, plus, your sysadmin may throttle applications that are not mission-critical at their discretion...Kelly. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 11:21 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Follow up on Handling Large Books in FrameMaker Hi all, As suggested by several of you, I tried opening all the files at once. This caused FrameMaker to have a seizure, freeze, and crashed. Then, I tried copying the frame files and book to my desktop and it worked fine. I had always known that working locally with framemaker means everything processes faster, but I didn't realize it made that much difference. I work on 300 to 400 page books on this network, and FrameMaker handles those books fine. I suppose its possible that 600 page books are the limit for the particular network that I am on. Unfortunately, due to work requirements, its no possible to work on local copies and then copy them up at the end of the day. I did this at another place I worked at because that company's network was so slow that you couldn't do anything with FrameMaker on the network, and it worked great. -- Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as kmcdaniel at pavtech.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/kmcdaniel%40pavtech. com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
