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- From: sld@phys.ksu.edu (Steve Davis)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: NCSA telnet CPU usage
- Date: 21 Aug 1992 18:32:32 GMT
- Organization: Kansas State University
- Lines: 32
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- Message-ID: <173cs0INNs9b@moe.ksu.ksu.edu>
- References: <1992Aug21.135137.1131@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <66529@hydra.gatech.EDU> <price.714418392@helios>
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- In <price.714418392@helios> price@helios.unl.edu (Chad Price) writes:
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- >np4@prism.gatech.EDU (Nick Pomponio) writes:
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- >>In <1992Aug21.135137.1131@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> wrp@cyclops.micr.Virginia.EDU (Bill Pearson) writes:
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- >>* When I run NCSA telnet under a DOS full screen window my Pulse meter
- >>*suggests that I am hogging the CPU, even when it is in the background doing
- >>*nothing. Likewise with epsilon for DOS.
- >>*
- >>* Is there a setting that I should change to tell these programs not
- >>*to keep polling for something?
- >>*
- >>*Bill Pearson
-
- >>I, too, have noticed this type of behavior. Even using 'type' to view a
- >>file in another dos window while NCSA Telnet is running results in a slow,
- >>jerky display.
- >>--
-
- >You need to play with the idle detect and the other parameter just above it
- >on the DOS parameters list. Since NCSA telnet constantly polls to see what
- >is happening, (as far as I can tell), you'll need to adjust the DOS session
- >so reduce the priority in background.
-
- Well, at least when *I* adjust those settings, no change can be seen on
- Pulse. It is kinda annoying to have everything slow down just because I
- have a telnet window open.
-
- Steve Davis
- sld@phys.ksu.edu
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