Re: [Summary-Talk] Summary Speed

[John May <jmaymailing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jason -

I'm not running into any RAM limitations.  No more sub-reports or 
filtering exist in the new setup vs. the old one.

What do you mean by "filtering things out" to speed things up?  I've 
minimized as much as possible on the Memory config page.

	- John


>The most important thing to check is to see if you are running out of
>physical memory and starting to swap to virtual memory. Take a look at
>the General:Program Status report and look at the Memory used number. You
>want to make sure that you have more physical RAM than Summary is using.
>Otherwise it will start to slow down dramatically.
>
>If you have more sub-reports, or much more filtering, than you used to
>that could also make a significant difference.
>
>Otherwise Summary should be within 10% of the speed it used to be.
>
>Disabling reports, on the Disable Reports configuration page, has no
>effect on speed. Filtering things out will usually speed things up, as
>will most of the memory saving settings on the Memory configuration page.
>
>Good Luck
>Jason
>
>
>On 3/23/03 2:46 PM John May (jmaymailing@pointinspace.com) wrote:
>
>>I'm not doing DNS lookups at all.  It may be that more reports are
>>generated with the newer version of Summary - we were running a
>>considerably older version on OS 9.
>>
>>What are the best things to turn off to speed up processing?  Does
>>each report that is enabled in Summary require more processing time?
>>Eg: should I start disabling reports to speed things up back to
>>normal?
>
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