Follow up on Handling Large Books in FrameMaker

[Kelly McDaniel]

When you work locally, the primary processing choke points are CPU clock
speed, bus speed, and hard drive read/write transfer rate. Swap file
available space and hard drive available space also come into play, but
we're comparing local to network access.

When you work over a LAN, the transfer rates are much, much less than
clock, bus, and drive head. TCP/IP retransmits dropped and corrupted
packets, network traffic has an impact, plus, your sysadmin may throttle
applications that are not mission-critical at their discretion...Kelly.

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Joseph
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 11:21 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Follow up on Handling Large Books in FrameMaker

Hi all,

As suggested by several of you, I tried opening all the files at once.
This
caused FrameMaker to have a seizure, freeze, and crashed. Then, I tried
copying the frame files and book to my desktop and it worked fine.  I
had
always known that working locally with framemaker means everything
processes
faster, but I didn't realize it made that much difference.  I work on
300 to
400 page books on this network, and FrameMaker handles those books fine.
I
suppose its possible that 600 page books are the limit for the
particular
network that I am on.

Unfortunately, due to work requirements, its no possible to work on
local
copies and then copy them up at the end of the day. I did this at
another
place I worked at because that company's network was so slow that you
couldn't do anything with FrameMaker on the network, and it worked
great.

-- 
Sincerely,

Joseph Lorenzini
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