> <snip>
> > WARNING! This is a P166 with 48MB ram, and a Seagate 1.6GB HDD!
> </snip>
>
> Hi Nige,
>
> Perhaps what you are noticing is the overhead of a TCP/IP
> connection on a box that must have a heritage order :)

Aye, it's heaps old, but it makes for low-flying software!

>
> While I would expect to have some measurable overhead over a
> TCP/IP connection on a "database server" specd machine, it
> should not be noticable to the user. (There is a difference
> between measurable and noticable).

Unfortunately, running this on a P4 2.8GHz 512MB DDR400 WinXP box yields
similar results...Just goes to show that TCP/IP isn't real efficient...

>
> My guess is the thing runs out of RAM when the TCP connection occurs.
> In any case, do not expect such a dramatic increase with a
> better resourced system.

It's constantly out of ram...:-)
The difference is still unusual.

N.