Hello -
I've discovered with a fairly elaborate non-eBase FileMaker 5.0 (Mac)
database of over 120,000 records that FM (version 3.0 through 5.0)
does not seem able to make use of more than about 48 MB of RAM,
regardless of how much is allocated to the FM application. This seems
to contribute to a major slowdown, with lots of disk access being
required for a file that (based on disk space used) ought to have
been able to fit into allotted memory with room to spare... (I
haven't tried moving this to eBase so far because it will require a
lot of customizing, which I don't yet feel familiar enough with eBase
to undertake.)
Can you advise as to whether FM 5.5 addresses the full memory
available to it any better than its predecessors? (Or whether I'm
just mishandling FileMaker somehow?)
TIA,
Pierce Butler
Gainesville, FL
>You will most likely run out of disk space before you run out of number of
>entries, 2G. There are people with FileMaker files with millions of entries,
>some eBase users may have as many as 100,000, perhaps more. There are some
>processes that you might run in eBase whose time of execution goes up
>significantly if you have very large numbers. We have 20,000+ and searches
>on unindexed fields are a bit tedious. You quickly learn which things are
>slow and don't do them if not necessary, e.g. the expire date field is
>computed, not indexed but there are fast find fields (which are slow to
>update - but make finding fast if you need to do them multiple times.)
>
>All of the different import possibilities work about the same - no
>preference.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: DADS Info [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 11:53 AM
>> To: TechRocks Support
>> Subject: [support] Maximum amount of entries
>>
>>
>> Hello everyone, I was just wondering if anyone knew if Ebase had a maximum
>> number of entries that can be entered into ebase and if it does
>> what is that
>> number.
>> Another question is when importing a huge amount of names and member files
>> what is the best way to do this, is it by excel or....
>> I hope I have explained this well enough.
>> Any feedback would be appreciated.
>> Thanks
>> Jessica Flipp
>> Dads and Daughters
>> www.dadsanddaughters.org
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 218-722-3942
>> 218-722-4058 (fax)
>> PO Box 3458
>> Duluth, MN 55803
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "office" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: "TechRocks Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 7:58 AM
>> Subject: [support] Importing Names
>>
>>
>> > Hope someone can help me with this minor problem...
>> > I am trying to import names into ebase and everything is working fine
>> except
>> > the zip code. It is importing as four digits instead of five. I have
>> > imported before and not had a problem so I'm not sure what I'm doing
>> wrong.
>> > And, other than the zip code, the import is working great. I
>> am importing
>> > from an excel file which shows the correct five numeral zip code. Any
>> > suggestions? They'd be very much appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Pam McChesney
>> > Shoreline Arts Alliance
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