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From: "Boscovich, Maximiliano" <mboscovich@rectorado.unl.edu.ar>
To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Performance problems
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:40:06 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47308AD6.8040709@rectorado.unl.edu.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071028152138.b0297919.theatre@sasktel.net>

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Frank Cox escribió:
> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:19:54 -0600
> Frank Cox <theatre@sasktel.net> wrote:
>
>> It seems to me that there was another program that does pretty much
the same
>> thing as TAME but without the send-money nag screen, i.e. a free
program.  But
>> I can't recall its name at the moment....
>
> I found it.
>
> Here is the readme file:
>
> QUOTE:
> DVPTAME   Released to the Public Domain, 1991.
>
> DVPTAME lets DESQview suspend programs before their time slice is up if
> they are frequently polling the keyboard to check for a keystroke.  You
> specify how many times the program is allowed to check for a keystroke in
> one clock tick (1/18 of a second), and DESQview does the rest.  No extra
> programs to load, no shared programs, etc.
>
> Usage 1:   DVPTAME = <dvp-file>
>      Report the current polling limit
>
> Usage 2:   DVPTAME <n> <dvp-file>
>      Set the polling limit to <n> keyboard polls per clock tick
>
> In both cases, <dvp-file> is the FULL filename of the .DVP for the program
> you wish to tame.
>
> In many cases, DVPTAME will perform just as well as the shareware TAME.
> However, TAME can suspend programs which don't poll the keyboard often
> but make their idleness known in other ways, and can tame programs which
> poll the keyboard frequently even while they are still doing useful work.
>
>
>         Ralf Brown
>         ralf@cs.cmu.edu
>         1:129/26.1
> END OF QUOTE
>
> As you can see, it appears to be DESQvew-specific at the moment.  However,
> complete asm source code is included in the archive that I have so
someone who
> is more incentivized than I am at the moment may be able to make it
work with
> DOSEMU.
>
> DVPTAME doesn't appear to be easily available online at the moment; at
least,
> Google didn't find it for me.
>
> Accordingly, I have put it online here for anyone who may want to take
a look
> at it:
>
> http://www.melvilletheatre.com/dvptame.tar.bz2
>
>
Thanks for all comments!!, i solved it!, the problem was hogthreshold
it was 0, now i put it in 1 and all it's ok. Thanks very much !.


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      reply	other threads:[~2007-11-06 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-26 23:33 Performance problems Boscovich, Maximiliano
2007-10-27  9:01 ` Frantisek Hanzlik
2007-10-27 18:19 ` Frank Cox
2007-10-28 21:21   ` Frank Cox
2007-11-06 15:40     ` Boscovich, Maximiliano [this message]

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