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don't have access to the internals of either DD or Excel). In a
multiprocessor system, NT will try to distribute the threads evenly over
the processors, so they're both about at the same load.
So, if nothing big is running, and a big multithreaded application starts
up, it's threads will be distributed over both processors (this may be
what happens to DD, I don't know how it's threaded).
If the application properly supports multithreading and doesn't
do anything illegal with it's interprocess communication, it will run fine
like this. Now, if a big SINGLE THREAD application is hogging one
processor, the multithreadded application will start up with all its
threads on the same processor, so it can get away with doing things that
are slightly against the rules. This may be the case when Excel is started
up before DD.
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Jamie wrote:
> I rarely get this problem on my normal pc (single processor 200 MHz Pentium w/NT Workstation) so I was trying to figure out if it was happening on the other machine because of the version of NT or the dual processors. So far I've managed to deduce that opening Excel makes the problem go away -- although I have NO idea why!!! Dragon Systems seems to think that switching to NT Workstation might help, although I know NT is not their main concern so I figure I'm really on my own with this. My concern is that if I keep the dual processor machine I'll put NT Workstation on it, but if I'm not happy with it we'll leave NT Server on it. So right now I'm experimenting to see if I can live with it as is. Shutting down the app DragonDictate thinks is "Generic" doesn't fix the problem, I have to reboot (or start Excel, this deserves some more experimentation, though).
>
> Thanks,
> Jamie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr Jenny Woods, ERU, RAL [SMTP:jenny.woods@@rl.ac.uk]
> Subject: Re: NT Server vs. NT Workstation
>
> At 10:52 23/03/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >Has anyone used DragonDictate with NT Server? I normally use it with NT
> Workstation but am testing out a dual processor Pentium (with success so
> far!) and am getting "Generic Window" for the vocabulary in MS DevStudio and
> MS Word. I don't see how this could be related to the dual processors
> (although anything is possible) so I'm wondering if it is because of NT Server.
> >
> >Thanks
> >Jamie
> >
> >Hello Jamie,
> this is not occurring just because of NT server, I get it on my PC
> which is just running NT. If you remember, Dana also had this problem.
> I find it occurs when I have shut all applications and so DD does not have
> a focus. It also seems to occur randomly (but rarely) when applications
> have just been opened. I find there is no way to make DD recognise these
> applications other than by shutting and reopening them. Sometimes I think
> this happens more when I have limited resources, but as it just happened to me
> this morning when I only had opened one programme I'm not sure that holds!
> Are you finding that this happens consistently with your applications,
> or just occasionally?
>
> I do wonder if there is some interaction with the network software...
> since we types who are using NT are more likely to be on a highly active
> network than people logging in from home on their windows 95 machines.
> Jenny
> -------------------------------------------------
> Dr Jenny Woods
> Energy Research Unit
> Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
> Chilton, Didcot, OXON, OX11 0QX
>
>
>
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