> Thanks, Bill - I'll take a look. > Unfortunately, no-one asked me about the new machine.
Actually I'm going to faced with the same problem - customer just bought a dual core HP machine, so in a few weeks I suppose I'll be dealing with this as well. They never ask us first! I would have resisted on that particular option, just on gut feeling. > Yes, I'm well aware of multi-processor issues. I spent most > of my career in the large IBM mainframe environment as a systems programmer - > early on we ran a dual-processor IBM 360-67. The code involved in making > sure things worked properly was horrendous. We used to joke about our > famous "four o'clock lock" - fairly often at around 4 in the afternoon, > the system would hang with a lock set. Not nice. As you know then, not every application can even make use of dual-core - only those that are amenable and organized for it. I never looked into compilers used for gaming, but I suppose that genre has some good candidates, and those apps are probably the driving force. I'm less sure about VFP in particular. My guess is that VFP apps are bound to a single processor and that MySQL/ODBC is what's getting tripped up in your equation. Very hopefully you'll find a fix or at least a control that lets you dynamically force processor affinity for your app at startup. Back in those days, I remember diving into the books and learning everything there was to know about the 360/370, now 390. It was a fascinating trip. I wouldn't even think about looking into Windows internals though, as I'd expect it to be "organized chaos" by comparison. I'm very thankful that VFP apps work, but don't have much confidence in MS OS's as a whole. When IBM (or China, who knows?) fits Linux into an SMP-like paradigm, if they do, then I'd say that's the industry's future for sure. True, that may bring back the role of the systems programmer, but it's arguable that's been MS's missing piece all along :) Bill _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
