Curious there Chance why would running it as a service have any effect on its resource allocation / scheduling apart from the effect that the good old background / foreground setting in windows does. I cant see any logic in MS coding in something like that and then only letting "services" benefit just doesn't seem to make sense to me, not that MS make sense most the time :P If you have the tech article references I'd really love to read up.
Steve / K ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chance Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The NUMA helps it a lot as well as the per cpu thread pooling and scheduling that's tied into it. 2000 does't have NUMA, not even the Datacenter version which I have. Keep in mind as as server OS, the servers must be ran as a service to get the benefit from the resource allocation and scheduling from either windows 2000 or 2003. A lot of people run them in cmd boxes not realizing that it takes away from the priority and memory/resource management, unless you have boost foreground application enabled, then they get almost the same priority.
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