Re: SQL server Vs Oracle

Arvin Meyer wrote:
>
> Stilian Elenkov wrote in message <3739D76F.D05B2874_at_vtls.com>...
> >
> >NT WKS takes 16M min. Word takes another 10M on a good day. You figure
> >out the amount of swapping.
> >There is no way it runs OK (sit while doing nothing maybe).
> >I have Word running (as I write this) on a dual PII 400 WKS with 256M
> >and UW SCSI drives and when running multiple other apps (Delphi C/S,
> >TOAD, OEM, Netscape, ReflectionsX, etc. Word consumes vast amounts of
> >CPU and causes swapping even though there is plenty of free memory. And
> >this is with FindFast removed. Before that it would bring the machine to
> >it knees.
> >A guess we have different definitions of "almost instant".
>
> I have virtually the same hardware as you do except I only have a single PII
> processor. Right now I'm running Win98, and have all kinds of memory hogs
> open. (Outlook, Outlook Express, Access 2.0, Access 97, and a Creative Live
> PlayCenter running "Dixie Chicks") and when I click on Word in Win Explorer,
> it opens almost faster than I can get my hands back to the keyboard. Maybe
> it's Netscape <g> or at least one of your other programs giving you the
> grief.
> ---

It could be Win98 vs NT WKS. Word is the offending app according to the performance logs.
There is possibility that some shared DLLs are loaded by other apps and cause slowness in Word but even when
already loaded and using formatting features (tables, watermarks, anchored images and stuff) Word does not perform so well.

> Arvin Meyer
> onsite_at_esinet.net

Stilian Received on Wed May 12 1999 - 19:13:40 CDT