Am Dienstag, 3. April 2007 15:53 schrieb Alain M.: > >> Update on at least 1.3.3, better 1.3.4. I use Clipper apps and can > >> compile on apps with Clipper/Blinker without Problems. > > > > It works with dosemu 1.3.4. Great! > > News about Locks+Dosemu+FreeDOS+Clipper? > I think not. It's a hotel reception database and the hotels I administer are small enough to have only one instance of the application running. Are there any precautions if I want to run various instances of dosemu+this application on the same (locally stored) files? > > Now I come up with an related question. The application does a busy-loop > > so the processor load is always 1. I know I can nice dosemu, but that has > > effects only to the responsiveness of my system. > > > > I'd like to assign only a part of the processor to dosemu so I can make > > use of power saving features. Is it possible to slow down the looping of > > moronic DOS apps? > > > > $_hogthreshold = (1) doesn't seem to have any effect at all. > > What happens is that *idle* time is eaten up 100% by dosemu. It (usualy) > dosen't affect the machine performance. If you want to check it: you > just run any other cpu consuming app and see that dosemu gracefully > reduces it's cpu use. > Yes. I know that. > But it will keep energy saving form working. There is a program DOSIDLE > that halts the cpu when needed and there is a new one SLEEPVM that I > never tested. Google for "site:vmware.com dosidle" > Ah. Thanks. > You will have an extra problem: this doesn't apply to clipper. There are > some other tricks for that, if you make it work, *please let us know*. > I'll try it out. > And there is an added benefit exclusive on dosemu: you can configure it > so that it *stops* when it looses focus. It's a good alternative. > Ah, found the option. Thanks! Kind regards Jan -- I will never trust someone called GATES that sells WINDOWS. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
