FYI The techie just got back to us. Performance goes from 25sec to close window to less then 1 sec. Solution was to reinstall OS, drivers etc in a different order.
We are very happy with the outcome. So much for our slow software :) Rob Martin Software Engineer phone 03 377 0495 fax 03 377 0496 web www.chreos.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kurt at DBC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list offtopic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 10:33 AM Subject: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: Performance issues > Robert martin wrote: > > > Hi > > > > We have a user who is reporting dismal performance on the following > > PII 266 > > 128MB > > Win NT4 sp6a > > > > We mentioned that the machine may be a little light for NT but there techie said. > > > > 'My experiance with NT4, is that it quite happily runs on a pentium 100 with 64 mb ram, running standard apps, and mcafee virus scan.' > > > > What do you think? > > > > Is the time you'll spend looking at it worth less than a new box? > For 10-20 hrs, they may as well just get a new box - or if its your > cost, you may as well buy them a new box - unless you get some > value elsewhere for correcting this performance (maybe everyone's > getting this performance, but not noticing?). > > However, I'd expect NT4'd be /okay/ on that box, I've seen it performing > /ok/ on less (not with sp6 (which presumably is ie 6?)) - though you > wouldn't want it for your desktop. > > Other than that, its purely dependent on what bottleneck you are > hitting. If your app is cpu intensive the _quickest_ it can be is > 5x slower than on a 1Gig box. Or are you maxing io on a slow > hard-drive? Or network? Or is a forward compatible system call > crap on NT and okay on 2k? > > NT + McAfee may have run okay on his p100 if there was not much > file writing occuring - I'd be happy running XP on a 386 as long as I > never had to actually use it... > > Cheers, Kurt. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/
