[FX.php List] Faster record creation?

[Tim 'Webko' Booth]

On 17/09/2008, at 2:35 PM, Dale Bengston wrote:

> Very interesting, in a bummer sort of way. I'm curious... did you  
> try this with no data returned on record creation?
>
> 	$ReturnedData = $InstanceName->FMNew($returnDataSet = false);

No, but I have now. No difference worth remarking on in small scale  
testing back-to-back

OK, it seems the increase in time is just a little below linear.

1 record = done
10 records = c1 sec
100 records = c9-10 sec
500 records = 48-49 sec
1000 records = 85-90 sec this afternoon (and I don't know why the  
difference since this morning)

Also mentioning that network is unlikely to be the issue here - on the  
office LAN, single machine deployment for the tests.

On a couple of the tests, I happened to see the status bar of the  
database, carefully counting up in lots of 9, 10 or 11 records at a  
time.

Which led me to then discover something else...
If I start the script, let it run for a second or so, then can it at  
the browser with a 'stop loading'... all of the records proceeded to  
get added in little groups until all the records are added.

Conclusion: FileMaker makes records relatively slowly - all the data  
has been fed in via FX and the script, but FileMaker hasn't said all  
is well, so the script doesn't terminate until it gets the response.

Cheers

Webko
>
>
> Dale
>
>
> On Sep 16, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Tim 'Webko' Booth wrote:
>
>>
>> On 17/09/2008, at 5:20 AM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
>>
>>> Theoretically it's faster to create those 1064 records through XML  
>>> RPC
>>> than through ScriptMaker...
>>> So I'd say you are going the right way, but 70 secs... that sounds  
>>> a bit slow.
>>
>> Well, for kicks I went and created a page that creates 1000 records  
>> and puts in only $i to one field and the auto-generated ID to  
>> another field. No relationships, nothing else in the table except  
>> the two fields, one layout - as simple as it is possible to go  
>> really.
>>
>> 77 seconds average on 5 runs
>>
>> Now that server isn't great - Dual 1Ghz G4 with 1.25 GB RAM, 10.4.1  
>> running FMSA9 - but creating large recordsets does seem to be slow.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Webko
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