Re: Performance on XP

From: Sleepless in Seattle (jonah_at_guest.com)
Date: 02/25/05


Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:34:26 +1300

Toss Registry Mechanic - a piece of worthless crap for morons. Next you'll
be driving a Lada.

-- 
Jonah
"Wayne Bjorken" <Wayne Bjorken@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:37BD8DE1-3880-40D4-ABAD-E5A5EE42A794@microsoft.com...
>
>
> "StringFellow Hawk" wrote:
>
>> In SQL Server Enterprise Manager, how did you configure memory on both -
>> dynamic or fixed - what did you allow min/max to be if dynamic or what 
>> did
>> you allow memory to be if fixed?
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> StringFellow Hawk
>>
>> "Dom, Give me Turbos"
>> "David Mohandas" <david_mohandas@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:uEat8px2EHA.3376@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> > I am running our application on Windows XP SP1 and Windows 2000 and i 
>> > see
>> a
>> > lot slower performance on XP than on 2000. XP machine has 1GB RAM and 
>> > 2000
>> > machine has 768MB RAM. Our application uses SQL server 2000 SP3A. Our
>> > application on XP to run a process takes 3.5hrs and on 2000 the same
>> process
>> > runs in 1.5hrs.
>> >
>> > Looking at the task manager on XP the sqlservr.exe Mem usage is around
>> 0.5GB
>> > and our application mem usage is 7MB. Wheareas on 2000 sqlservr.exe Mem
>> > usage is around 0.5GB and our application mem usage is around 50MB.
>> >
>> > I don't understand why in XP my application is not getting enough RAM,
>> > because i don't see all of the RAM being used (i.e) i don't see any 
>> > other
>> > application in the process list that uses a lot of RAM other the 
>> > sqlservr.
>> > But whereas the available physical memory is 4MB, i wondering where it 
>> > all
>> > went away. Also i notice heavy page faults in XP and that is leading to
>> > under utilization of CPU which is causing the  performance degradation.
>> >
>> > Has anyone seen such a behaviour on XP?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > David
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
> My  performance problem started when I upgraded from HOME to PRO. NO
> hardware change and no application. MS support lead me up the wrong tree 
> so
> after examining the  Manage created I discovered several problems created 
> by
> the upgrade process. I always check my logs. I found a stubbed DCOM CLID 
> and
> Registry Menchanic found errors too numerous to mention. If there was a
> downgrade procedure other than a reload, PRO would GO. 


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