CLIPPER S87 EXE using 100% CPU on XP 1

[ZoDra]

Hi!

My EXE is using practically all available cpu on win xp. Starting two applications of mine is still working but significally slover, starting third is impossible (hav a package of applications 6 forming whole application).

I installed OSLIB.LIB and tried using OL_AUTOYIELD function, which is supposed to return all nonneeded cpu time back to OS but I get two unresolved :
1. __EVDEREGRECEIVER
2. __EVREGRECEIVERFUNC

Does anybody know what is wrong? (hope it is not my S87 compiler, do not have time to go to 5.xx)

regards

 

[JockMullin]

Hi, ZoDra

This one has been pretty extensively discussed here, if you do a search with keyword "idle" or "wait state" you will get a ton of hits.

Thread 288-191093 has a lot of good references.

Personally, I don't even bother recompiling - just set up the prog to execute from a shortcut, edit the .pif and on the MISC tab set the idle sensitivity to high and that reduces the cpu to 20-40%. I have a DOS window configured on my desktop to use command.com as the interpreter for just that purpose (set up a shortcut to c:\windows\system32\command.com, edit the properties and set the idle sensitivity). However the other solutions in that thread are more elegant and portable.

Jock

 

[ZoDra]

Thanks JockMullin!

Pif's are OK I know that. I never thought of putting idle into serch engine (problem is in fact busy, or not). I will try searching with suggested key.

Drago

 

[laado]

Hi Drago,

Have you tried "Dosidle" i have been using this for 3-4 years now....Search for "Dosidle" & if you find "Dosidle.obj" keep this file in app folder

and call this function like "Dosidle()" in your main function...

Laadi

 

[ZoDra]

Hi everyone!

Many thanks, I have tried both pif and dosidle. After a while (2 or three minutes) I get slightly better results (lower cpu) with dosidle, however this window is respondig also slightly slower but I am not too sure.