Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/07/02/14:38:28
Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote:
>
> > Running bash under NT the system becomes considerable slower.
>
> Everything is slower on NT ;-).
>
> > I noticed the same when I let the Norton
> > Commander running and I guess that both of them are not aware that they are
> > running in "multitasking" (so much for NT and multitasking) and continuosly
> > poll the keyboard (or something other).
>
> Please use the system monitor tool to see whether Bash indeed places any
> significant CPU load on the system when it idles. Please report what did
> you see.
>
> Bash calls the __dpmi_yield function in its idle loop, which is supposed
> to yield the rest of its time slice, so Bash at least tries to be a good
> citizen in the multi-programming environment (I don't know about NC, and
> it should be obvious that any analogy between those two is null and void,
> at least theoretically).
NC doesn't call any dpmi_yield, under W95 the metter says NC eats
100% of the CPU (not true in the practice).
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