Found it today!

The client had installed a Canon GDI laser printer (LBP1200 or something like that) and the print status monitor program that comes with the install was chewing up 100% CPU time! Shut the program down from the icon in the notification area and the problem stopped. Removed the program from the startup group and the problem disappeared. For good.

Win98 doesn't have a nice Task Manager that tells you what each process is doing CPU-wise so it was a process of elimination.

Mind you, the client was pretty happy with me. It might just be the time to present my invoice <g>.

Cheers,

Andrew

>Did you get this fixed?
>
>>Hi Folks,
>>
>>I have a client with an old FPD 2.6 app with 4 (main) tables of between 200k and 500k records each. The data are on a WinNT WS "server" and the clients run FPD in a Win98 Window.
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>>In the past couple of weeks, data access times have more than quadrupled (the size of the tables hasn't changed significantly). Issuing
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USE g:\data\table1 && 200k records
>>SET ORDER TO 1
>>GO TOP
>>SKIP 100000 && <-- LONG delay

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>>is still going about 10 minutes later.
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>>The problem seems to be of the same magnitude from all of the workstations.
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>>Any hints would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Andrew