"Lynn McGuire" said:
Nope. Nothing on my file server which is a dual AMD opteron 250
on a Tyan motherboard with an Intel Gigabit NOC on the motherboard.
No joke, this is very difficult to debug. I do not have clue what to do
now.
Thanks,
Lynn
A post someone just made, pointed to this thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=27&threadid=1664899
There is some interesting reading in that thread, concerning how
to run dual cores and get the best from (badly written) apps.
1) Control Affinity for tasks that don't play nice on your machine.
Another option, is to use a shortcut that uses "RunFirst", to
restrict execution to just one core. This option leaves both
cores running.
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20040528/task-assignment-01.html
2) Disable a core. There is some kind of boot option, like /onecpu ,
or perhaps there would be a BIOS option to disable a core.
This is the first example I could find in a search, and maybe
WinXP does it this way also. Disabling a core is a more extreme
form of playing with affinity. Use this if the whole system isn't
behaving the way you'd like (i.e. to prove the problem is caused
by having dual cores).
http://www.weberdev.com/PrintExample.php?count=488&mode=color
3) If you are using Cool N' Quiet, there is a hotfix from Microsoft,
that will correct "negative time" errors in games.
http://www.amdzone.com/modules.php?...=article&sid=3951&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Since you are using dual core, here is an MS hotfix for performance.
Apparently a lot of games won't run properly on X2 - in some cases
it can be fixed with affinity. In other cases, where the games
fail due to some kind of "negative time" problem, it could be
due to this:
Microsoft hotfix KB 896256 for "demand-based switching"
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=896256
Who said X2 wasn't high tech
Paul