From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Boscovich, Maximiliano" Subject: Re: Performance problems Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:40:06 -0300 Message-ID: <47308AD6.8040709@rectorado.unl.edu.ar> References: <47227958.4060804@rectorado.unl.edu.ar> <20071027121954.a24f3ff2.theatre@sasktel.net> <20071028152138.b0297919.theatre@sasktel.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20071028152138.b0297919.theatre@sasktel.net> Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =46rank Cox escribi=F3: > On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:19:54 -0600 > Frank Cox 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. Y= ou > specify how many times the program is allowed to check for a keystrok= e in > one clock tick (1/18 of a second), and DESQview does the rest. No ex= tra > programs to load, no shared programs, etc. > > Usage 1: DVPTAME =3D > Report the current polling limit > > Usage 2: DVPTAME > Set the polling limit to keyboard polls per clock tick > > In both cases, is the FULL filename of the .DVP for the pr= ogram > you wish to tame. > > In many cases, DVPTAME will perform just as well as the shareware TAM= E. > However, TAME can suspend programs which don't poll the keyboard ofte= n > but make their idleness known in other ways, and can tame programs wh= ich > poll the keyboard frequently even while they are still doing useful w= ork. > > > 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. How= ever, > 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; a= t least, > Google didn't find it for me. > > Accordingly, I have put it online here for anyone who may want to tak= e 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 !. - -- "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." =20 - - Plato - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Boscovich, Maximiliano GNU/Linux Counter user #402782 Blog: http://maximilianoboscovich.wordpress.com Jabber: boscovich@jabberes.org MSN: joelboscovich@hotmail.com GnuPG Public Key: http://keyserver.veridis.com:11371/export?id=3D-8543752951164951938&cre= ated=3D1152911209000 Command in GNU/Linux: gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net - --search-keys mboscovich Key fingerprint: 7A88 1636 BDA4 F680 AB00 0D8E 896E 7DF5 291E 227E - ------------------------------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHMIrWiW599SkeIn4RAjYWAKCDYMzq93SxknI+X+pf8hGRTBWpgwCcCgu3 BLTmaO87NYObT/udyCoYdGY=3D =3DfswD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html