Hi Peter, Thursday, October 14, 2004, 3:35:26 PM, you wrote: PF> I did a manual re-filtering of 500 of messages in my Inbox - it took 7 PF> mins!
PF> I have been running TB! for 6 hours today until now: CPU time is 2:17, PF> current Memory usage 67 MB, VM is 84 MB. PF> I am now running a host of other programs and the PC seems slow. PF> OK, so my system is old (I need to buy some new hardware): AMD Athlon PF> 700 MHz, 256 MB Ram. At home (where I am now), I run only POP3 PF> (almost), 3 VFs, MyGate, Kaspersky plug-in, load of other plug-ins. I'm no expert, but I'm running a 233MMX pentium 256 ram on a 1996 motherboard. I run a firewall, AV, Ad-Aware plugin and a couple of other behind the scenes programs for trojans. Along with TheBat! process usage during this message is running between 25 + 38%. With this old board and processor, the things you describe are things that happen when I have slightly fragmented partitions. Sounds crazy, but the bat fragments so bad on this machine and slows it down to a crawl if I don't defrag ever 4 days. I have TheBat! on it's own partition, IE on it's own partition along with other temp files. I have to say, another reason I have a huge slow down is with batxxx.tmp files which can range into the thousands, during some of the betas. If I carry that baggage around I crawl around... I don't know if that information will help, but I thought you should know that if an old 233 can run all this stuff, than you might want to look at how your other programs are interacting with each other as a possible problem. Try defragging these older CPU's, I'm also running version three on a 486 25hz, nothing runs fast on that machine, but it runs unless there is a lot of fragmentation. I keep that machine defragged often, it is not used very much for obvious reasons... Well at 22% overall usage and THeBat! at 1-8% usage while typing this post I shall close and hope something might help. I hate it when this thing runs like a snail. Good luck. -- Cheers, Dean 3.0.1.33 Windows 2000 5 0 2195 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is (none) | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
