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From: GELSON%SBU.UFRGS.ANRS.BR@uicvm.uic.edu (Gelson Dias Santos)
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Subject: Re: Gomf is CPU greedy!
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Date: 3 Jun 91 15:18:16 GMT
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Paul Anthony Wilkinson <u8705377@cs.uow.edu.au> writes:

>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.

>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-) .

Two questions: Is there any PD util to show CPU statistics, or are you using a
commercial product?
               What is Gomf, anyway? ;-)

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