From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

Less internal semaphore locking maybe?

If accesses were somewhat limited in origin and serialized by the
initiator's particular behavior anyway, a MT database wouldn't buy anything
at all.

Injecting MT overheads into what was previously a serialized operation
usually results in performance loss.

"Ellen K."  wrote in message
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> 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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