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From: u8705377@cs.uow.edu.au (Paul Anthony Wilkinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Gomf is CPU greedy!
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.111119.8148@cs.uow.edu.au>
Date: 3 Jun 91 11:11:19 GMT
References: <223@taloa.unice.fr>
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
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beust@taloa.unice.fr (Cedric Beust) writes:


>    I wanted to have statistics about the CPU use on my Amiga and was
>very suprised to see that gomf (3.0, so launched via runback) used
>about 12 (twelve!) percent of CPU time, and in READY mode, not
>WAITING. So I decided not to use it any more.

>    Anyone can corroborate this amazing figure?

I stopped using Gomf at version 2.0 when I found that it was using a large
chunk of CPU time. I suspect it is because it frequently checks lowmem to see
if someone stomped on it via a NULL pointer etc.  I also found that when 
GOMF did catch my programs that left locks open & stuff and I had to reboot
anyway. The simpler solution is just not to make programming errors 8-) .

   Regards,
     Paul Wilkinson

u8705377@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au  - I can't afford a .sig let alone opinions.