The 48 MB is only a Mac restriction. Memory allocation on pre OS X is very
primitive. I don't know if OS X does better.
At work I run FM server on Win2000 on a machine with 256 MB. At home I run
on Win 2000 on a machine with 256 MB. In both cases it appears to use the
memory well, e.g. first usage of something that scans the whole database is
much slower than subsequent ones.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierce R. Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 11:12 AM
> To: TechRocks Support
> Subject: [support] RE: Maximum amount of entries
>
>
> 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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> >> >
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