From the information given it is not clear how application makes "saving in the table" and whether application has graphical interface.
Also do tables remain free or they are included into the database now?
Anyway, it could be that while saving application refreshes form controls or repaints the form and triggers VALID events.

>Hi,
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>I am trying to convert an application from 2.x to version 6 multi user environment.
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>I compiled the source code into ver. 6, did some required changes, everything worked fine.
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>Then when I tried to convert this single user app. to multiuser it slowed down, saving in the table which used to take few seconds now goes in minutes.
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>I am using free tables, no buffering, filelock while appending blank record, freeing file lock and record lock after that while replacing values from the variables into the table and freeing rlock after that.
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>does anybody knows what may be causing the slow down.
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>Thanks
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>Munish Arora
>konstruct Systems
>arora_munish@rediffmail.com