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November 15, 2011
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When did Frame become unable to handle large tables?

  • November 15, 2011
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I am routinely getting crashes when i try to build tables out of text or import text to tables. And when i try to work with these files frame constantly goes to the spinning circle and stays there indeffinately. when i say large tables i mean LARGE. 300-900 pages of size ten text with the master page broke into three columns and the table has 3 as well. is there some setting i can change to make frame handle these better. frame 7 never had this problem.

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    __AG__
    __AG__
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    November 15, 2011

    Do you have lots of markers, xrefs and/or variables in these large tables? Do you have any of the Pods open in your Workspace? These take a lot of FM resources to populate (could take five to ten minutes). Close the pods or create a workspace without them and see if this improves your performance.

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    ioscarAuthor
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    November 15, 2011

    blank workspace same problem

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    ioscarAuthor
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    November 15, 2011

    it says recommended 18418 mb. will uping it help?

    Bob_Niland
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    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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    November 15, 2011

    What version of Frame?

    What operating system?

    How much physical RAM and swap space?

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    ioscarAuthor
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    November 15, 2011

    version 10.0.1.402

    windows 7 ultimate

    and ive watched my performance monitor when im running framescript and frame at the same time and 8 of my 12 (6 physical 6 virtual) cores are parked when i hit save its the same thing. does frame not support hyper threading. this isnt an isolated problem ive been working with an expert and have over 100000 pages of text to frame conversion for the us military under my belt and frame sucks with large tables.

    Bob_Niland
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    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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    November 15, 2011

    Control Panel > System > Advanced system settings

    Performance [Settings]

    /Advanced\

    Virtual memory

    what is ...

    Total paging size for all drives:?

    It may be less than your installed 12GB RAM.

    does frame not support hyper threading.

    As far as I can tell, the Frame user GUI is and always has been single-threaded. Some of the printing process may be a separate thread (it is on Unix).

    Apps don't casually choose to "support" multi-threading. They have to be massively re-coded to take advantage of it.

    If the promise of an auto-magic parallelizing compiler had ever been realized, the Intel Itanium processor might now dominate the market, instead of being a fading niche product. As it is, with Moore's Law having hit the wall in 2002 (as commonly misunderstood to mean doubling of MHz every 18 months), the world faces significant coding effort to take full advantage of the new wider-not-faster bazillion core CPUs.

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