More tests - I found a Microsoft utility "imagecfg.exe" that one can use to patch an executable to force it to use only one CPU. Tried it, and it indeed does that. I patched VFP9.exe and also my sqlconvert.exe program. Task manager shows them as running only on the one CPU. But it doesn't help.
Next test is to make a change to BOOT.INI to disable multi-processing (or change the BIOS - I don't know how hard it is to do this, since I'm not near the machine| and see what happens then. I did find out that the CPU is Intel, not AMD. At least according to Sysinfo. Larry At 11:15 AM 2/17/2007 -0500, you wrote: >Search "disable dual core" for a lot of stuff on the subject. Seems >you're not the only one to run into problems. Frankly, dual-core is one >advance that I'd stay a mile away from until I'm convinced it's been >proven over time. I worked with it mainframe land, and recall fixing a >bug that required clearing the processor's instruction cache. Not that >we as app developers should every have to worry about such things, but >the whole thing involves really tricky timing considerations that I >would have thought impossible for Windows to deal with (message-driven >vs interrupt-driven). Obviously they've got it to work - most of the >time - but I really wonder if it can be made to work reliably ALL of the >time. > > >Bill > Larry Bradley Orleans (Ottawa), Ontario, CANADA --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** 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.
