What time interval are you using? I have the same configuration - and it works fine. I set my interval to 10 seconds.


>> FWIW - slowstart works fine. It may not be optimial - but it does work. I use it and it has served me well.
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>I have tried slowstart on two different 400 MHz Pentium II's under NT 4 and
>it does NOT work.
>Finaly, I found stress utility from MS site. This isdesigned for testing system for SQL server.
>It slows down computer properly, but this
>was very inconvenient since it slows down properly only during some time
>interval of its work.