Re: unofficial prerelease 1.1.3.2 for testing

Re: unofficial prerelease 1.1.3.2 for testing

[Bart Oldeman]

On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Bart Oldeman wrote:

> in www.dosemu.org/testing
> the patchset is from 1.1.3->1.1.3.2; the patch from 1.1.3.1->1.1.3.2.

I should add: don't forget to update your global.conf and dosemu.conf
because several joystick options, and better support for Cyrillic
(from Sergey) were added.

Bart

unofficial prerelease 1.1.3.2 for testing

[Bart Oldeman]

in www.dosemu.org/testing
the patchset is from 1.1.3->1.1.3.2; the patch from 1.1.3.1->1.1.3.2.

Please test the improved joystick support from Clarence Dang: it looks
very nice, but I don't have a joystick. He claims it works faster if you
enable pthreads (see compiletime-settings), but I experienced DPMI crashes
that way (DJGPP gcc immediately nukes DOSEMU), so left that out by
default. Can anyone confirm?

I also (re-?)enabled the stripping of one trailing dot for the redirector
(MFS) -- this should solve one half of Johan Gill's CDROM/Space Quest
problems.

Bart

Re: unofficial prerelease 1.1.3.2 for testing

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Bart Oldeman wrote:
> Please test the improved joystick support from Clarence Dang: it looks
> very nice, but I don't have a joystick. He claims it works faster if 
> you enable pthreads (see compiletime-settings), but I experienced DPMI 
> crashes that way (DJGPP gcc immediately nukes DOSEMU), so left that out by
> default. Can anyone confirm?
Well, as I don't have a joystick, I
can only confirm that dosemu doesn't
even start on my machine when I enable
pthreads. No problems with them disabled
though.

Re: unofficial prerelease 1.1.3.2 for testing

[Clarence Dang]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 02:03, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Bart Oldeman wrote:
> > Please test the improved joystick support from Clarence Dang: it looks
> > very nice, but I don't have a joystick. He claims it works faster if
> > you enable pthreads (see compiletime-settings), but I experienced DPMI
> > crashes that way (DJGPP gcc immediately nukes DOSEMU), so left that out
> > by default. Can anyone confirm?
>
> Well, as I don't have a joystick, I
> can only confirm that dosemu doesn't
> even start on my machine when I enable
> pthreads. No problems with them disabled
> though.
>
Hi everyone,

I just ran the joystick code (with pthreads) on a little-used machine and it 
froze...the logs report that it got a load average of 63 within 1 second of 
starting DOSEMU.  Later examination showed that it was randomly spawning new 
threads uncontrollably!  On another machine, it works fine...

So, just to be safe, you should probably turn off pthreads (as Bart Oldeman 
and Stas Sergeev have pointed out).  I'm curious though as to why pthreads 
can cause so much trouble?

The performance increase with pthreads on with joystick support is not 
significant at all on my machine (Pentium II) but is largely theoretical.

Thanks!
Clarence