I have a database program that I have to perform file maintenance (archiving) on. Immediately after we upgraded our PCs to XP, and the XP compatible version of the program, I notice that the data archiving process was absurdly slow. If the DB was designed so we could slowly siphon off the old data without taking it out of service this wouldn?t be a problem, but it isn?t designed that way.
Task Manager never reports more than about 5% CPU usage. It is so slow, that we have kept a 98 machine around for maintenance.
Our new PCs are five times faster, with twice the memory, so this makes no sense at all.
I have tried changing the priority of the task, as well as numerous Performance Options, but it still crawls.
Periodically I try to get somewhere with the vendor, but I?ve gotten nothing from them yet.
Any ideas?