• Re: D'Bridge 3.99/SR44 released and avai

    From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Roger Nelson on Mon Jun 17 08:42:59 2019
    On 17 Jun 19 05:18:11, Roger Nelson said the following to Nick Andre:

    But still has to be run on a single core-processor, right?

    Yes.

    Nick

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  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Roger Nelson on Tue Jun 18 16:23:22 2019
    On 18 Jun 19 09:28:35, Roger Nelson said the following to Mark Lewis:

    I am willing to be proven wrong because I have been before.

    Bo Nick, if I have been running, as mark says, on a single-core, then I shouldn't have any problem, should I?

    If you start Windows Task Manager and it reports more than one CPU core, then you should be running using the shortcut I created for you; which tells the mailer to use only one core.

    The reason for this, is because the D'Bridge code in how it runs on NTVDM, which is the Windows DOS service, is not properly supported for multi-core usage. It appears the system timer is not properly emulated or reported.

    The tell-tale sign of this problem is when D'Bridge hangs (freezes) completely at the midnight Auto-Update event. The clock seconds freeze at zero.

    If the problem still occurs with startup delays on Windows 7, then we need to do troubleshooting as I mentioned before. I am not seeing anything outright which would be causing this problem to happen.

    Nick

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  • From Roger Nelson@1:3828/7 to Nick Andre on Tue Jun 18 19:07:52 2019
    On Tue Jun-18-2019 16:23, Nick Andre (1:229/426) wrote to Roger Nelson:

    On 18 Jun 19 09:28:35, Roger Nelson said the following to Mark
    Lewis:

    I am willing to be proven wrong because I have been before.

    Bo Nick, if I have been running, as mark says, on a single-core, then I shouldn't have any problem, should I?

    If you start Windows Task Manager and it reports more than one CPU
    core, then you should be running using the shortcut I created for
    you; which tells the mailer to use only one core.

    The reason for this, is because the D'Bridge code in how it runs on
    NTVDM, which is the Windows DOS service, is not properly supported
    for multi-core usage. It appears the system timer is not properly emulated or reported.

    The tell-tale sign of this problem is when D'Bridge hangs (freezes) completely at the midnight Auto-Update event. The clock seconds
    freeze at zero.

    That's why Chris had us create a dummy echo to prevent that from happening and it has worked for years and still does.

    If the problem still occurs with startup delays on Windows 7, then
    we need to do troubleshooting as I mentioned before. I am not
    seeing anything outright which would be causing this problem to
    happen.

    If you want to take another shot at my system, you are welcome to, My Intel G2030 is probabaly what made me think it is dual-core. After I post messages, the system sends the mail to standby and hangs, but any other program I want to run will work.


    Regards,

    Roger
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  • From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Roger Nelson on Wed Jun 19 07:42:31 2019

    If you want to take another shot at my system, you are welcome to, My Intel G2030 is probabaly what made me think it is dual-core. After I
    post messages, the system sends the mail to standby and hangs, but any other program I want to run will work.

    By 2016 I had issues on end with the old motherboard which I kept alive with boxes of old parts. I decided that 'enough is eough' and I bought everything new.

    \%/@rd

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  • From Roger Nelson@1:3828/7 to Nick Andre on Wed Jun 19 02:10:46 2019
    Following up a message from Roger Nelson to Nick Andre:

    On Tue Jun-18-2019 16:23, Nick Andre (1:229/426) wrote to Roger
    Nelson:

    On 18 Jun 19 09:28:35, Roger Nelson said the following to Mark
    Lewis:

    If you want to take another shot at my system, you are welcome to,
    My Intel G2030 is probabaly what made me think it is dual-core.
    After I post messages, the system sends the mail to standby and
    hangs, but any other program I want to run will work.

    Make that "Staging"


    Regards,

    Roger
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  • From Roger Nelson@1:3828/7 to Ward Dossche on Wed Jun 19 04:53:28 2019
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    If you want to take another shot at my system, you are welcome to, My Intel G2030 is probabaly what made me think it is dual-core. After I
    post messages, the system sends the mail to standby and hangs, but any other program I want to run will work.

    By 2016 I had issues on end with the old motherboard which I kept
    alive with boxes of old parts. I decided that 'enough is eough' and
    I bought everything new.

    I believe I remember that, but I won't do it yet because Nick found nothing wromg -- not even intermittently.

    THanks for the help.


    Regards,

    Roger
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