Tom, now I am transfering with pilot-xfer , has passed 40 minutes and go on.
I think that the problem is that pilot-xfer and Hotsync do a Record
Transfer instead of Stream transfer. I guess that if I can do a Stream
Transfer it will work faster.
Am I wrong?
Thank You
Alejandro Calvo
At 11:42 AM 4/19/00 -0400, you wrote:
>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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