UR performance

[Jon Polish]

It seems that the speed of UR is not a problem for most people (although as noted elsewhere USB use may introduce a deterioration in performance). For some reason, I am finding UR to be quite slow on my desktop and laptop. Since I rely on my laptop primarily, here are the specs:

Pentium M @ 2.0 GHz
1 GB RAM
100 GB hard drive (defragged weekly) 65.2 GB free space
128 MB video memory

Importing and exporting files is painfully slow. If I import a large mbx file (say over 40 MB), I can expect 100% cpu usage over the next couple of hours (sometimes longer). Importing large delimited files is similarly slow as are large text files whether they are split by line breaks, page breaks, paragraphs, or imported intact as one large file.

Exporting is a bit faster for me, but not by much.

I really like UR and would like to use it as my primary repository, but the poor performance I experience makes it impractical for me. I also use askSam with a database that is 23x larger than the one I use in UR. My database for Info Select is far smaller. My point is that both programs (IS and askSam) are nearly instantaneous.

Are others experiencing this? Am I doing something wrong?

Thank you for any advice.

Jon