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In article <CKCIeDAQeLKzEwUj@wookie.demon.co.uk>, wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk 
says...
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>In article <$vdb2EAl4qJzEwZB@lewisw.demon.co.uk>, Bill Lewis
><bill@lewisw.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>>As much as I hate to disagree with someone so knowledgable in so many
>>differing areas, may I point out my post in this thread giving CPU and
>>MEM usage figures for a NT4 Server during D/L with Turnpike Connect.
>
>You may, none the less the d.i.s.turnpike, many people have made the
>observation that cpu usage is reported at 100% while Turnpike is runing.
>This is quite normal and no cause for concern.

This is probably because Turnpike does not to use the proper mechanisms for 
doing I/O under NT that do not consume CPU when they are waiting for input: 
overlapped I/O. Even worse, they may be using loops instead of Sleep(). I run 
away from applications that do this as much as I can. 

I also disagree that you would have to reinstall NT on anything other than the 
most desperate case. I've been using NT since its first appearence and in all 
these years the only time I had to reinstall it was when I was stupid enough 
not to follow the proper installation procedure of intel applications on a DEC 
Alpha (running FX!32 of course) - I ended up with intel DLLs in the system32 
directory which made a mess of the whole system. In no other occasion did I 
have to reinstall, in fact I have had almost no problems at all! (I tease my 
unixy friends when they have to rebuild kernels!)

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