W2000 and CAE Response Times

Thanks Joe and everyone for your helpful responses.
I will check for tasks on the W2K machines.
My first suspicion is our Virus protection S/W.

Regards and Happy New Year
Frank Kolmann

>date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:30:53 -0600
>from: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>subject: RE: [WDSCI-L] Client Access and Win 2000 (poor performance)
>I have been using CAE with W2K for several years now on various machines
>and have never had any sort of problems with slowdowns.  The one
>exception: if the PC is printing (or otherwise performing some
>CPU-intensive task).  My first guess would be that your W2K machine has
>some sort of intermittent CPU hog running.
>
>> From: Frank.Kolmann@xxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> I must beg to differ.  I have 2 PCs beside each other.
>> We are on an 825 V5R2 and I have up to date versions on CAE.
>> The 825 has more capacity then we use. It is not the cause.
>> The CPU usage mostly is <10% rarely goes to 60% (dual processor).
>> The CAE on Win2000 PC suffers periodic delays of about 1-3 seconds
>> , the same function on Win98 has negligible delay.
>> The delay is not consistant.  There will be say 3 or 4 good reponses
>> followed by the delay. It is very annoying and not an urban myth.