RE: Slowing down an old program to run on a fast CPU?
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 Or try qemu. I yesterday booted installed NetBSD in a qemu box running under FreeBSD5.4 ;-) Try to run it with/without 'kldload kqemu'. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slowing down an old program to run on a fast CPU?
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 04:57:50PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: You think that is bad, try running 'rain' on an xterm! HAHA. Not only xterm, normal console is good enough :) Joerg ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slowing down an old program to run on a fast CPU?
--- Neo-Vortex [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kamal R. Prasad UNIX systems consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slowing down an old program to run on a fast CPU?
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! 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slowing down an old program to run on a fast CPU?
You think that is bad, try running 'rain' on an xterm! -Matt Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slowing down an old program to run on a fast CPU?
On 2005-06-10 15:44, Mike Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. A port patch would fix this nicely, I guess :-) But it's not a general solution that would work by something like: % slowdown -f 0.025 ./a.out ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slowing down an old program to run on a fast CPU?
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:44:15PM -0700 I heard the voice of Mike Hunter, and lo! it spake thus: 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. It'd be tough. One way might be a wrapper program that SIGSTOP'd and SIGCONT'd the program with some pauses, but that would be incredibly nasty and probably not too pretty. A better way could would be to wrap the program with a library implementing sleep() and friends differently, so they pause for N times as long. But even that doesn't help when the programs don't slow themselves down. I guess the only general solution would be an API into the scheduler saying Don't give this program more than N% of the CPU, but I'm pretty sure we don't have one. It'd be neat, though... /usr/bin/too-nice-for-its-own-good8-} -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
