Prefetch factor (-prefetchFactor)
- Last Updated: October 13, 2025
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- Version 12.2
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Prefetch factor (-prefetchFactor)
Use Prefetch Factor (-prefetchFactor) to
establish a percentage of a network message required to contain prefetched data before
sending the message to a waiting remote client.
| Operating system and syntax | UNIX / Windows |
-prefetchFactor
n
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Use with | Maximum value | Minimum value | Single-user default | Multi-user default |
| Database Server | 100 | 0 | — | 100 |
- n
- The percent of a message buffer to fill before sending it to a waiting remote client.
The number of records in a network buffer is also influenced by the Prefetch Num Recs (-prefetchNumRecs) parameter.
See the Manage the OpenEdge Database for a discussion of the interaction between the parameters.