Radical slowdown on one system

[Ken Ray]

Memory? I know that this can cause major slowdowns if there's not enough
RAM.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Richard Gaskin
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 1:17 PM
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> Subject: Radical slowdown on one system
> 
> 
> Of the many folks using my MC-base WebMerge product over the 
> last two years, I've never had a support case like this one, 
> and am hoping some of you may be able to offer some insight:
> 
> When I run the WebMerge tutorial here on the slowest machine 
> I have (Win 95,
> 300MHz), it generates the tutoprial pages in 3.9 seconds.   I have a
> customer running Win98 on a 1.7GHz maxchine and the same 
> files take 4 minutes to process.(!)
> 
> Most of what WebMerge does is parsing and concatenating text, 
> and of course creating files.  Not particularly 
> atom-splitting stuff, and I've never seen a performance 
> disparity even close to this.
> 
> I've verified that we're using the same fles, have the same 
> version of WebMerge (using the MC 2.4.2 engine), and in all 
> other respects his system is far superior to the one I've 
> been testing on.
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> -- 
>  Richard Gaskin 
>  Fourth World Media Corporation
>  Developer of WebMerge 2.2: Publish any database on any site  
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