>Howdy,
>
>Looking for some ideas with a performance problem at a new customer.
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>For some reason our App. is very slow at a new customer and I have no idea why.
>-The Application is standard VFP code with Free Tables.
>-What is slow is openning a form - 1.5 minutes (usually max 20 seconds.)
>-Saving 20 lines in a grid - 2 min's (usually 5 seconds...)
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>Their network is faster then ours 100MB ethernet.
>The server is a P3 with 1GB memory and a huge disk.
>It is not used for anything else.
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>There is only one user usering the application and the speed problem happens.
>They are not using any antivirus software.
>The clients are P2's with 64MB.
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>The hardware far exceeds our guidlines. And I have never seen any problem like this before. We have almost thousands of customers with the same software.
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>-There is only 3 records in the system so far.
>-I Tried reindex the database anyways.
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>-When I copy the application and run it from the server it is fine.
>-I took their data and application home and set it up on our server (which is smaller and our network is only 10 MB!) And it is fine here.
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>I am at a total loss as to what it could be Any ideas?
>But it must be at the client?
>
>Any wild guesses would help.
>Thanks!

- Check to make sure they are not running any anti-virus software on the *server*, and if so, that it is set to not scan your application's files.

- If the network is running on TCP/IP and a proxy server is in use, make sure the proxy server is bypassed for hosts on the local subnet.