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Carroll Slemaker wrote:
> The only assertion I would disagree with is that this 100% CPU
> utilization by the Server is a recent problem - it isn't.
Depends on your definition of recent, I suppose. As I recall,
and I could be wrong about this, when this subject was last
debated extensively, some old timers pointed out that the server
had not always had this behavior.
> I noticed
> this when I first switched to Windows NT, maybe two years or so ago, and
> complained to Omega at that time. It obviously relates to the form of
> IPC (inter-process communication) being used between the 16-bit Server
> and the charting module. It might be inherent in DDE (Dynamic Data
> Exchange, an obsolete protocol which Omega is using), or it may be just
> in how they've implemented their DDE interface.
It has only to do with the server itself. The server will take
100% of your CPU, no matter how powerful, without any other
applications running, TS or otherwise.
> I have been told that
> the 32-bit Server will not have this problem.
All other problems will be fixed too, by the end of Q2 1998. :-)
Rod
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