Re: Dosemu and clipper applications eating all CPU

[Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>]

Hello.

Peter B. Steiger wrote:
>> Problem of clipper I presume? If it
>> just runs in a busy loop while idle,
>> dosemu can't really help.
>  That is exactly the problem.  On NT/XP systems, there is a third-party
>  program called TAMEDOS which intercepts the busy loops and does
>  something so that the CPU is free but the application does not slow
>  down.
If some prog can do that, then dosemu
should either. It is just a matter of
knowing what exactly that program
intercepts ("intercepts the busy loops"
is too obscure).
Maybe a test-case of a clipper prog can
be found somewhere to see what it does?

> know at least one of the loops is a constant keyboard poll:
dosemu is catching that. It is also
trying to catch a mouse polling, and
then people complain that programs
slows down when mouse is inactive:)
It also intercepts the timer polling
and some other things. I have no
guesses as to what's missing.