From: Ellen K. 

Very interesting, thanks.

I am gonna be SO happy when we don't use this thing any more!!!!!

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:34:05 -0000, "Paul Ranson"
 wrote in message :

>Old Novell (3.x) only supported cooperative threading, later versions
>implemented pre-emptive. So perhaps Netware itself doesn't handle
>co-operative threads well in a pre-emptive environment. They would be
>threads inside a thread. The application would be scheduling internally on
>the assumption that it had the entire CPU to itself.
>
>Win32 has a nicely integrated and very efficient co-operative threading
>implementation called 'Fibers'. It's worth reading some of the background on
>MSDN including how SQL Server uses them.
>
>Paul
>
>"Ellen K."  wrote in message
>news:m1nv01dvk03igv1a6k11kunudtgop5kiae{at}4ax.com...
>> Apparently turning off multi-threading in Novell greatly improves the
>> performance of the legacy database.   Any theories as to why this should
>> be so?
>

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