Thanks to everyone for their responses. When we run our RB app on Windows NT on several different PCs in the office it works fine. When we run it on a big Windows network it takes 10 minutes to do something that should take 0.1 seconds - and this is without any disk access or network access as far as I know. I even tried disconnecting the computer from the network, and rebooting and it was still slow. So the likely culprits are virus software or some type of security or firewall software. But we did turn the firewall off - we had to in order to try to get the debugger stub to run (which it never did, so we just ran the compiled exe on this computer). Note too that this same app ran fine on this exact same computer for several years - and the trouble started when they company's IT department upgraded the PC software in some way. The good news is that its no my programming bug causing this and we can blame it on Windows NT or something but the client won't like that, and what can be done. We need a solution.
Greg > Well, AV software usually impacts file access times, sometimes hard, but > not usually by that sort of factor. Usually like 20 to 100 percent > increase in file access times, judging from a study I read, which also > lines up roughly with my own experiences. > > Some details that might help- > Is the app client/server, being executed from a share, passing data to > something else, or what? In essence, what is it doing on the network? > > What sort of network? I would assume 10/100 ethernet, but assumptions > are bad. > > What version(s) of windows? If there are multiple versions, do you see > the issue on all of them? > > A general idea would be to run a packet sniffer, like Ethereal, to see > what traffic is being passed. > ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
