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>I've got a simple method of the COM server that counts from 1 to half a billion. It runs on my machine in about 33 seconds and takes the CPU utilization to 99%. When I run it from the COM+ component on the server, the server only runs at 25% utilization and runs it in 25 seconds.
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>My machine is a laptop, 1.4Ghz with 1.25GB RAM. The Server is a dual 3.6 Xeon with 4GB RAM. It seems to me that the server should stomp my laptop, no?. I realize that only one processor would be working on this thread, but still doesn't that disparity seem odd?

If the Xeons are hyperthreaded you are already maxing one of them out...

regards

thomas