On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 21:25:37 GMT, "Hurrah" <hurrah@not.here> wrote:

I have a second PC, (dual P3/800MHz) - do I tick the box for "set

affinity"

or leave it blank?
What does "set affinity" do?

Set affinity tries to keep a process with the same processor, and hence
with its data that is already in that CPU's cache. This is a good idea
for performance.

So, for the dual P3/800 I'll set (processor) affinity to a tick (which is ON
I guess).

Okay I will try and help with the affinity box.....Mike Ober is the
person that knows EXACTLY which processor to use it on and which not
to but.....if you use it and the processing slows down ALOT then the
box should not be checked/ticked. Basically what happens is the
processor runs out of memory and your processing slows down. This
happens because you have selected the affinity box and that ties that
unit to that processor. I believe that AMD's should NOT have the box
checked/ticked and Intel's should, but Mike can answer definitively.