Wyell Grunwald ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>  Powerhouse will drag any machine to its knees no matter what the >  size
......

Wyell:

I have found a way to tame the Powerhouse beast.  Using HP's Workload
Manager product I set up a special "workgroup" that contains ALL of the
Powerhouse products (QUIZ, Quick & QTP).  By setting a CPU limit of 50% on
them for daytime processing the computer is never totally starved and it
can continue serving all of the other processes that run on it.  At night
the percentage is bumped up to 75%.

I've been running my computer that way for a couple of years and I haven't
had a user complaint yet.  By the way, I do a similar thing for the ODBC
driver software since it too loves to take much more CPU than I can afford
it to use during daytime processing.

HTH,

John Hornberger
Sr. Systems Programmer
SPX Corporation
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