In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]
says...
>
>We were recently doing some testing of a KSAM/CM file with over 60,000
>duplicate keys, and thought of KSAM/xl as a possible solution to the
>poor performance we were seeing. Adding a new duplicate key to KSAM/CM
>was taking about 40 CPU seconds, but KSAM/xl took over 500 CPU
>seconds!

Are you saying it took 500 CPU seconds to add all 60,000 keys, to add each key,
or to add the 60,000th key? If the last, how long did it take to add the
30,000th key? or the 5,000th key? At what point did the XL performance become
WORSE than the CM performance?

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Mark Landin
T. D. Williamson, Inc.
UNIX Sys. Admin
"If you take the smooth, you gotta take the rough" -- Rob Halford