I'm converting my AREV app to OI currently. I use Win NT Workstation v4. I am a single-user developer. When OpenEngine comes in checking and updating indexes, all OpenInsight related applications stop and show "Not responding" in the NT Task Manager. This means I can't proceed with form design, coding or whatever tasks I am currently trying to do.

A dedicated indexing machine can take up the load. I am only a single user developer, and a number of my clients are only small (3 to 5 workstations). Being small they can't necessarily allocate a workstation just for background indexing tasks.

Is their a way of lessening the impact of these "background" index updates. In other words, can these updates take less resources and allow me to continue with development in the foreground.

Are there parameters or some such which one can set?

Matthew,

You can certainly change the time frame between updates.

This is done in the DB manager -] Database -] Environment Management -] Indexes - Seconds before update.

This is a per application setting so you would need to set this for every application.

John Revelation

Matthew,

In a recent version, there was an improvement to the background indexing logic that would avoid the pauses in processing when indexes were not in need of updating.

Cameron. Revelation

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