I can't tell you, but you can try it. Most of the bottleneck is "just the
way the software works." Adding more memory would also be a good thing to
try.
Glenn Thompson wrote:
> Brian,
>
> You seem very knowledgable about this. What would moving up to one of
> the new 733-750 MHz machines do. Would that provide any relief or would
> it be negligible? I am assuming of course that such a machine is not
> being used now. Let's just assume a 400 Mhz CPU.
>
> brian lehrhoff wrote:
>
> > Mentor and Director are the same - small files flow, large files
> > choke. The only way to achieve throughput on the PC platform is to
> > feed a steady stream of small files. I can't tell you the optimum
> > size for Director, but Mentor seems to top out at 700-800K per flat
> > file. The Unix flavor of Mentor does not have this "problem".
> >
> > Mercator would be a good choice for your solution, but keep in mind
> > that Mercator will read and validate your entire input file before
> > writing. Make sure your production machine has plenty of memory
> > (fastest) or disk (slower) for the work files. Same caveat prevails -
> > smaller input files run faster.
> >
> > Outsourcing? Glad to talk to you about it. Also glad to give you a
> > straight answer to your question :)
> >
> > Anthony Beecher wrote:
> >
>
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> Glenn Thompson
> Programmer/Analyst
> American Trouser, Inc.
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