Have you tried RAM disk from Super Speed. http://www.superspeed.com/index.php I have not tested it throughly yet. If you get 2 GB RAM, your can reserve 1.5 GB RAM for your MapInfo data.
Prehaps other on this forum have experience with RamDisk, this very simple test, below, with 2,2 million points (300MB), turned out to run 62.5% faster, when all MI data was copied in the RAM with RamDisk, compaired to data present on the harddisk. dim start as integer dim elapsed as integer set table DavAdrDK undo off fastedit on start = timer() update DavAdrDK set row_id = ROWID elapsed = Timer() - start print "Time sec: " + str$(elapsed) unDim start undim elapsed Mvh. | Regards Jakob Lanstorp Software Developer Geographical Information & IT COWI A/S Odensevej 95 DK-5260 Odense S Tel +45 99 36 77 00 Direct +45 99 36 77 86 Fax +45 99 36 77 01 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cowi.dk -----Original Message----- From: Data Directions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 December 2004 13:37 To: MapInfo List Subject: MI-L : Speed processing issues I am doing erase, combine and disaggregate operations on 1.3 Gb files, and needless to say, the processing times are ridiculous ... hours and hours .. ad infinitum! I have implemented the idea of using the MapBasic window and choosing to bypass transaction files by the process: set table YourTableName fastedit on undo off Aside from the impractical option of purchasing a Sun Sparc station, would it help if I was to increase my RAM or even processor speed? I am currently running on a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 with 512 Mb RAM. Or should I maybe consider doing these operations in another product that imports MID/MIF files? Thanks again, Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 14638 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 14640 ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 14642 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 14647
