Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 14:59:23 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Ulrich Lauther <lauther AT cayley DOT zfe DOT siemens DOT de>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: bash's readline very slow?
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On 19 Jan 1997, Ulrich Lauther wrote:

> when I use bash under linux/dosemu/djgpp, echoing of what I type in
> is *very* slow; is this normal, or did I configure something in a wrong
> way?
> 
perhaps your HogThreshold in /etc/dosemu.conf is improperly set.
personally this is what I do (optimize HogThreshold so that DOS gets
minimal CPU time) because I only use DOS to run a word processor (WordStar
4, it's ancient and can run on an XT). But if you want DOS to grab all the
cycles from Linux, set HogThreshold to 0 and it'll work.

(n.b. even with HogThreshold == 13, on my Cx486 [26 bogomips] I can run
Warcraft II in a DOSemu fullscreen and still have half the CPU left over
to do "real" multitasking ;)


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