Btrieve Question:
Suppose after upgrading to NetWare v3.11 and the NetWare Btrieve NLM v5.15, Btrieve is running slower than expected. What are the factors and how to fix them?
Answer:
The following are the factors
- The page sizes of Btrieve are set to 1024 and 512 bytes
- All the workstations are configured with IPX v2.15
- The disk block size was set to a size apart from default 4k block size
- These factors cause a minor Btrieve performance degradation.
The following are the combination of factors to improve performance.
- Rebuild the file size of Btrieve with a page size of 4096 bytes
- Upgrade IPX to v3.10
- Recreate all the volumes block size with 4k
- The page sizes of Btrieve are set to 1024 and 512 bytes
- All the workstations are configured with IPX v2.15
- The disk block size was set to a size apart from default 4k block size
- These factors cause a minor Btrieve performance degradation.
The following are the combination of factors to improve performance.
- Rebuild the file size of Btrieve with a page size of 4096 bytes
- Upgrade IPX to v3.10
- Recreate all the volumes block size with 4k