From: richard AT stardate DOT bc DOT ca (Richard Sanders)
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: cpu eater
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 01:57:18 GMT
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On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 10:56:03 -0500, in comp.os.msdos.djgpp you wrote:

>I am wondering why it appears that the sleep function with
>the code compiled under DJGPP on the NT seems to use 100% of my CPU???

Perhaps because DJGPP is DOS and DOS is not multitasking sleep just
wastes time rather than giving the time back to the OS to be used by
other processes.

>I was expecting the program to sleep quietly for 5 secs and then
>continue
>the while();
>
>The same code is working fine on the UNIX machine.
>if this is NT being silly then how can I get around this?

No this is not NT being silly because sleep works as expected when
compiled with VC  and Borland 5.0