>I,ve developed a VFP 6 batch application. It has huge tables (almost the 2 Gbytes limit) with many index on each one.
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>Does anybody the best way to optimize batch applications?. The new computer where the software is going to run is:
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>2 pentium III - 500 Mhz.
>256 Mbytes RAM.
>36 Gigabytes SCSI 10.000 rpm hard disk.
>Windows NT Workstation (SP5)
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>Is there any way to optimize VFP so it uses the dual pentium procesor?
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>The batch process lasts almost 4 days to be completed and I want to reduce it the most possible.
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>Thank you in advance.
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>Juan P. Pérez

Fox does not use dual processors directly. A mult-threaded DLL will use both processors, but for different threads. Without knowing what your batch processing does, it is difficult to tell you what to do. However, if you USE your tables EXCLUSIVE, it will be faster.