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- Subject: Re: load average patches for MiNT 1.10 + patches
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 94 18:51:04 CET
- From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>
- In-Reply-To: <20637.9402222135@earth.ox.ac.uk>; from "Stephen Usher" at Feb 22, 94 9:35 pm
- Message-Id: <9403031751.AA00123@jelal.north.de>
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- Stephen Usher writes:
-
- > Here's the latest version of my uptime and load average patch for MiNT. The
- > patch is relative to version 1.10 with most of the patches from the last
- > week added.
- >
- > This version now uses the 200Hz interrupt for timing so should keep the
- > correct time on any machine with whatever monitor. The patches affect dos.c,
- > intr.spp and proc.c and adds loadave.h. I'm also including below definitions
- > for mintbind.h.
-
- hmm. i haven't tried but i would suggest just using the 200 Hz timer
- counter (_hz_200) and doing calculations elsewhere... because the 200 Hz
- interrupt runs at level 6 and the longer you run at levels >= 5 (6) the
- easier you lose characters on serial ports. (receiver overrun...)
-
- just a thought :)
- Juergen
-
- PS: same goes for evnt_timer, and the keyboard/mouse/midi interrupts, etc.
- btw could this also be the cause for Thierrys modem1 devices problems?
- i think it does a few things in etv_timer too...
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