On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 10:31:38AM -0300, Alejandro Calvo wrote:
> I have a PDB file that has 14000 records and it size is 1MB.
> When I transfer it to the Palm (Using Install option in HotSync), it takes
> 2h 15'.
> Is this time normal?
I don't think so, but what baud rate are you running at. The new OS
and hotsync support 115200 baud.
Does it go any faster if you use pilot-xfer -i database.pdb instead of
the normal hotsync?
> Is Thare any way to transfer it faster?
It depends ;).
I think you need to do something to go to a coarser granularity at
least for the hotsync. Each record creation interrupts the dataflow
so slows everything down a lot more than you might otherwise expect.
If your app would then unpack, say, record 1 into records 1-16,
(original) 2 to 17-32, etc. it might also take time, but wouldn't slow
the hotsync and the sum of both should be faster than the 2 hours it
is taking now.
(Since I am working on an unzipper, it has to create databases on the
palm itself from streams - it works but I haven't tried a 14000 record
database; however the .zip file would be smaller and have 4K records
so would sync fast - I don't know about the unpacking...).
If the problem is that palm takes several seconds to create the
10,000th and 10,001st database, or any beyond a certain point, you
need to split it into maybe 28 500 record databases.
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