It was only the machines down one side of the building which was the weird thing.
I had the "network guru" hovering over me asking "why is *your* software not working?" over and over. It obviously took him a while to agree to down the networks on a hunch but once he saw what was happening with his boss stood behind him his attitude completely changed. While not actually apologising to me it was good fun watching him squirm his way out. happy days. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of mrgmhale Sent: 19 July 2007 14:00 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: RE: Slow load of runtimes Wow, I thought only I had run across that kind of loopback on a LAN <g>... In the case where I saw it, the entire network went down immediately after some folks began to migrate cables to a new set of switches. I got the call after everything crashed. I asked what they had changed just before it all crashed. "Nothing, we just started moving cables from the old hubs to the new switches, then it all stopped working. We think we have a bad switch out here." I had then double check to make certain they did not have two or more cables uplinking to any "child switches". Sure enough, there was a duplicate uplink. They unplugged the offending cable the "new, broken switch" was suddenly fixed <g>... Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Graham Brown (CompSYS) > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 5:40 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Slow load of runtimes > > > Hi > > I had a site a couple of months back which was doing the same. Exe was > local, runtimes also local vfp data on network and still running slow. > > Switched off every machine and server and still 14 ports lit on the > switches. > Turned out to be cabling with the 5 network switches in that they > had switch > A connected to switch B which was connected back to switch A and so on (14 > times!) > > No I didn't believe anyone could be so stupid either having spent hours > checking the application over!! > > I'd recommend if it is a small network isolating it to the one machine. > > Cheers > Graham > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Michael Hawksworth > Sent: 19 July 2007 08:24 > To: profox@leafe.com > Subject: RE: Slow load of runtimes > > > AV, DNS lookup issues or Your app is causing memory paging when it is open > with the 42K spreadsheets, word documents and sundry other programs that > obviously don't effect performance! (early XP desktops only had 256MB > memory) > > If this is using SQL server check that your ODBC does have a reference to > the server otherwise it has to go find a suitable system > (30s-2mins delay). > > Degrag the drive (run checkdsk first) > > It is usually one of the above. > > Regards > Michael Hawksworth > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:profoxtech- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions > > Sent: 18 July 2007 20:28 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Slow load of runtimes > > > > Allen wrote: > > > I have seen this on sites where the program is loaded from a server. > > Its > > > painfull. > > > Allen > > > > > > > Yes, I've seen what you've seen too. However, I run my apps > > local...not > > from the server location. > > > > -- > > Michael J. Babcock, MCP > > MB Software Solutions, LLC > > http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com > > http://fabmate.com > > "Work smarter, not harder, with MBSS custom software solutions!" > > > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
