Good tip, Jenny. I think it boiled down to looking at a combined graph, instead of a per processor one.
Maybe the question is how to spread the load to the other processors now? Eh... On 9/2/06, Jenny Gavin-Wear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Rick, > > Could it be a knock on effect of memory resource usage? How does that > look in Perf Monitor? > > I am assuming you are running Win 2003 Server (or similar)? > > Look in C/Panel => System => Advanced => Performance => and check that > Background_services and System_cache are selected. > > Jenny > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 01 September 2006 14:10 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: OT: SQL Server CPU Utilization maxes at 25% > > > I have a fairly large bulk insert DTS task in SQL Serve that loads 5 gig > or so of data into our database every morning. It drops the original > tables, bulk inserts the data, then recreates all the indexes. No > logging, etc. > > I'm trying to figure out a way to improve the speed of this process - > but the CPU utilization seems to have some kind of artificial limit of 25% > > See this graph: > http://www.it.dev.duke.edu/temp/sqlcpu.gif > > It seems really odd to me that the CPU usage flatlines at 25%. > > What might be going on here? > > Rick > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:251935 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4

