Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 23:24:48 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalpr@yahoo.com> To: Neo-Vortex <root@Neo-Vortex.net>, Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.berkeley.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slowing down an old program to run on a fast CPU? Message-ID: <20050611062448.57145.qmail@web52708.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050611085830.N98712@Neo-Vortex.net>
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--- Neo-Vortex <root@Neo-Vortex.net> wrote: > > > On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Mike Hunter wrote: > > > Hey everybody, > > > > I was playing around in ports and came across > xroach. Cool program :) > > The only problem is that it runs too fast; you > can't see the roaches > > because they scurry under your windows too > quickly. > > > > Is there a general-purpose approach to this kind > of problem in the FBSD > > world? I can see myself writing a C program > called `slow` that would take > > argv[1] as the factor ( > 1) by which argv[2] > should be slowed down by. > > > > Anybody else ever come up against this? > > > > Thanks and happy Friday! > Try lowering the priority of the target using nice and see if you can raise the priority of all other processes. In that case, the process with a lower priority will be automatically starved of cpu time. (p.s It has happned inadverently to me many times during debugging that I starved my shell of resources). regards -kamal > You could try installing vmware and running however > many copies of windows > it takes to make the game playable... (i would say > some other form of > *BSD, but it probobly wouldn't hog as much cpu :P) > > ~NVX > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ------------------------------------------------------------ Kamal R. Prasad UNIX systems consultant kamalp@acm.org In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is:-). ------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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