From: sopchak AT aoainc DOT com (Jim Sopchak) Subject: Re: benchmarking on NT 21 Nov 1997 07:14:17 -0800 Message-ID: <34746DA2.314E.cygnus.gnu-win32@aoainc.com> References: <199711191853 DOT FAA17757 AT murlibobo DOT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU> Reply-To: sopchak AT aoainc DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Fergus Henderson Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Fergus, Perhaps you could try launching your bash command as such: START "Timing Myprog" /SEPARATE /HIGH time ./myprog.exe For more information on the START command enter: START /? | more at the command line. You may also wish to try it with the /REALTIME priority setting instead of /HIGH. Haven't tried this myself ever, but it seems like a reasonable approach. Jim Sopchak > I'm trying to run some benchmarks on Windows NT. > Ideally I would like to reuse some Unix shell scripts > that I have for this. > > Unfortunately, I have run into a problem. NT has an utterly bizzarre > habit of pausing execution of CPU-intensive tasks for no apparent > reason. So my simple bash command > > time ./myprog.exe > > runs forever, or at least for a very long time. > NT seems to give the process some more CPU time every time I > move the mouse into the Window, or type a key, but I don't want to have > to sit there waving the mouse around while I'm running benchmarks! > > This seems to happen regardless of the setting of the "Application > Performance" setting in the Performance section of the Control Panel. > > Is there some way of avoiding this? > > I'm using NT 4.0 (build 1381). - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".