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<DIV>In a message dated 9/10/2004 10:38:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jeremy@plunketts.net writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>I agree with Fairlite's supposition that you're <BR>spiking processing heavily. Is there any pattern to when this is <BR>happening? Days? Times?</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV>No... that's one of the difficulties. The problem is truly (at least seemingly) random. Although this is a large (for me) system it is nonetheless pretty simple: One hard drive, no RAID, about 20 terminals (mostly serial; a few IP), about 10 printers, no other apps besides filepro.</DIV>
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<DIV>Sounds like John E. has experienced similar also on simple configurations... although his problem seems different if the key strokes actually end up getting processed.</DIV>
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<DIV>I will check the L2 cache the next time I am on site, but the thought of overloading the processes is interesting too. This machine is almost NEVER turned off. Would that make a difference? Does allocation of processes start over again after a reboot? If so should the problem be less after a reboot?</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks much for the thoughtful help... really appreciate it.</DIV>
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<DIV>-Lee</DIV>
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