At 08:43 AM 12/28/99 -0600, you wrote:
>We are developing a product which has the implicit requirement that a single
>hotsync take no longer than five minutes to complete.
>
>Currently, with a portion of our dataset consisting of 11,600 records, it
>takes 4 minutes 20 seconds to retrieve the first four bytes and the record
>id from each record in this dataset.
>
>Why is the overhead so great? We are trying to get setup for 115 kbps
>transfer, but don't see that this will provide much benefit to a transfer
>that has this kind of overhead.
It's not just reading the record id and the first 4 bytes, the server is
reading the whole record from the device - the Palm is dead during sync, it
can't negotiate "partial" reads.
Maybe you should think about constructing a database on device that
contains the just the 13 bytes you're interested in from each record in
real database and sync that instead of syncing the real one - this means
more processing on the server, but thats what it's for, no?
