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> I have an AMD Athlon 700, 384 meg RAM, 30 gig 5200 rpm HDD, ATI
> Rage II AGP
> video, Win 98 SE.
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> This unit slows down to a crawl when doing long, involved processes; ie, I
> have a program that splits multi-page tiff files into single
> files. When I
> first start it, it runs at 22 ppm, however after about 6800-7000 pages, it
> is down to 1 ppm. I have never let it continue to run to see
> just how slow
> it will go.
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> I can run the same program on my wife's computer, PIII 733, 512 meg Ram,
> Win 98 SE, and it will run fine until completion, regardless of the amount
> of pages.
My guess is it is a memory issue, if your process ends up using more than
the 384MB you have the swapping would definately cause your job to decrease
in speed by a large amount. Does the hard drive start going nuts when it
slows down? TTYL
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