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Re: WP5.1 under DOSEMU uses 100% CPU all the time



On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 04:06:02AM +0200, I. Tura (seasidefront@yahoo.fr) wrote:
> 	Hi to all,
> 
> 	After configuring DOSEMU I've started running WP5.1 for DOS there.
> Everything seemed fine but it happened an event I feared. If I use WP the
> CPU starts going near to 100% and this bugs me a lot, specially because I
> can end hearing the laptop fan. I always needed tranquility when I was
> writing short stories with it (the only use I give to WP5.1) so no good deal.

Not sure if it's relevant, but you might look at your hogthreshold
setting under /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf.  I believe DOS doesn't provide
native CPU throttling, but Linux allows you to throttle CPU utilization
of the DOS emulator as a whole.

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