Containers and Insets-Building the Manual

[Art Campbell]

The item that I thought of that may cause a slow-down is not your
local config as much as if all those files and insets are across the
network on one or more servers. If they're all open, and you're
performing a file-intensive operation, you're going to be using up a
lot of bandwidth.

I'd try an experiment and use Bruce Foster's Archive plug-in to
collect a copy of all the insets and files into a local directory
(this doesn't disturb the source files in any way). Then see if the
local location changes anything. If, by chance, you have two local
hard drives, I'd store the files (actually all local data) on the
drive that doesn't contain the operating system, swap space, and
applications, but that's a footnote.

Cheers,
Art

Art Campbell
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On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Judy <judy at hypack.com> wrote:
> Hello Fellow Framers!
>
> After spending quite a bit of time reading posts in the FrameUsers
> archives, I thought I had some things figured out.  It worked on a small
> scale, but now that I've begun using larger documents I'm running into a
> problem and I hope you folks can help.
>
> I've been working toward making my unstructured FM 8 doc. set more
> modular to improve my single-sourcing capabilities.
>
> I read several posts concerning text insets in container documents and
> that sounded like the perfect solution.  After a few tests on a very
> small scale, I moved forward to breaking down  and reassembling the
> first 3 chapters of our user manual.
> Ch.1:  63 pgs,    61 insets
> Ch.2: 224 pgs, 168 insets
> Ch 3:   83 pgs,   71 insets
>
> Each chapter (individually) worked fine, so with that much done, I
> decided to build a test book and work out the issues around
> cross-references and hypertext before I continued on to the remaining 6
> chapters.
>
> My problem is that, with all of the fm files and books open at once, my
> computer slowed *way* down!  I built a book with the 3 container
> documents and added a TOC, but had trouble scrolling through the TOC.
> Nothing "crashed", but it was so slow it's clear that I'm headed for
> trouble.
>
> I checked the performance in the Windows Task Manager and, with _only
> FM8_ open, the CPU Usage was around 50% (give or take about 7%).
> My Computer:
>  - Intel Core 2 Duo CPU
>  - 2 GHz Motherboard
>  - 2 GHz, 3.5 Gb RAM
>  - OS: XP SP3
>
> I'm wondering if I've broken the files down too far and FM can't handle
> that, or if there's something else I don't know about.  I've read,
> numerous times, about the power of FM and that people use it to handle
> much larger documents than mine. I have to believe that there's an
> answer somewhere.
>
> Can you FM gurus please help me?
>
> Thanks so much!
> Judy
>
>
>
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