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From: griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu (Danny Griffin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Gomf is CPU greedy!
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Date: 5 Jun 91 15:48:29 GMT
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alex@bilver.uucp (Alex Matulich) writes:

>GOMF has saved my ass so many times while programming, that I do not want
>to give it up.  True, I often re-boot anyway after a crash, but I like the
>added comfort of being able to clean up complicated projects, examine
>temporary ramdisk files, etc, before re-booting.

>In actual timing tests, I have not noticed GOMF to slow down any
>application that I run.

I'd like to echo the above statements.  Also, since I am usually doing
18 things at once (whether or not they're actually being used - usually
2 or 3 are big apps, other are small background things) the Amiga may
occasionally hiccup if i get too anxious with dmouse flipping between
them.  Even on those errors that become unrecoverable, at least *that*
app is in suspension while i can go to all others and save my previous
two hours of PageStream layouts, emacs editing, finish a download, etc.

Try using a program like AIBB (Amiga Intuition Based Benchmarks) and
check the speed of your Amiga with and without your background processes
one by one.


-- 
Dan Griffin
griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu