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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 15:43:00 +0000
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Subject: Re: bash eats cycles
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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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