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Subject:	Re: SV: hi about rhide
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Henrik Berg wrote:

> > >the only thing that i can see wrong with rhide is the fact that it
> > >tries to use as much cpu power as it can get its hands on
> >
> > What exactly do you mean by that? Could you give us an example?
> > I remember when I setup the DOS port of BASH on my system and I set the HOME variable,
> > RHIDE took about 30 seconds to start. Without that variable it was it's own quick self.
>
> Thats not it. The problem is that it seems that RHIDE don't yeild to the rest of the system, resulting in using 100% of CPU usage if possible.
>
> This results in my distibuted.net client is not working when I have a RHIDE in a DosBox under Win98. :-) BIG problem! :-)
>
> I think the orgiginal question was; can this be fixed. I have tried a later beta of RHIDE and the problem is still there. I think I read something about an alternative keybord input, but that means recompiling, and I have not had time for that yet.
>
> Have anyone solved this problem?

I used RHIDE 1.4.7 in a W95 box running the distributed.net client and did not experiment slow downs in the RC5-64 calculation.
Currently I don't boot W95 at work so I can test again.

Here is what I get in my Linux machine while playing MP3 songs and RHIDE 1.4.7:

20  19   308  280   200 R N     0 94.6  0.4  2674m rc5des
0   0  2220  188    76 R       0  2.5  0.2   0:52 esd
2   0   760  760   572 R       0  0.9  1.2   0:00 top
0   0  4872 4332  2972 S       0  0.5  6.8   0:00 x11amp
0   0 27980  23M  8244 S       0  0.3 37.8   2:09 netscape
0   0  4872 4332  2972 R       0  0.3  6.8   0:01 x11amp
0   0 20892  17M  1156 R       0  0.1 28.2  15:48 XF86_SVGA
0   0  1356 1356   996 R       0  0.1  2.1   0:00 mc
0   0   148  120    92 S       0  0.0  0.1   0:03 init
0   0     0    0     0 SW      0  0.0  0.0   0:00 kflushd
-12 -12     0    0     0 SW<     0  0.0  0.0   0:02 kswapd
0   0     0    0     0 SW      0  0.0  0.0   0:00 nfsiod
0   0     0    0     0 SW      0  0.0  0.0   0:00 nfsiod
0   0     0    0     0 SW      0  0.0  0.0   0:00 nfsiod
0   0     0    0     0 SW      0  0.0  0.0   0:00 nfsiod
0   0  1256 1256   928 S       0  0.0  1.9   0:00 bash
0   0    84   12    12 S       0  0.0  0.0   0:00 getty

So looks like the sleep() in the ::idle() member is included in RHIDE 1.4.7 for Linux, so I think it is also in the DOS version.

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