Re: saving to alternative disk directory

[Paul Lagasse pglagasse@xxxxxxxx]

Rafe, I checked on my portable and dosemu's well behaved there too. But
take a look at this, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=992706, if
you haven't seen it before; it looks like it might help.


The only other thing I can think of is that your hogthreshold is set to
something other than 1 in .dosemurc--


Paul

Raphael Tennenbaum wrote:
> hi Paul --
>
> on the new desktop, a quad-core of fairly recent vintage, XyWrite
> scarcely registers on the GKrellM monitors except when I switch in and
> out of it. on the little Asus netbook, however, Conky shows spikes
> and big CPU usage, and the internal fan gets excited quite a bit, no
> matter what CPU setting I use in .dosemurc (in fact I'm a bit
> skeptical about whether that CPU setting is even implemented). if I
> get a half an hour, I'll see if I can scale it back with Tame.
>
>
> I am still on 9.04 on the desktop, Intrepid on the netbook -- just
> only installed the desktop about 2-3 weeks ago, and it works very,
> very nicely, and the last thing I need is for something to break -- as
> a matter of fact I saw a report that some part of jPilot, a nice, lean
> little program I use to link to my old Treo, doesn't work under 9.10.
>
>
> -rafe
>
>
>
> Paul Lagasse wrote:
> > Raphael Tennenbaum wrote:
> > >  Xywrite under Dosemu is the fastest I've ever seen, though it also
> > > uses considerable CPU power & I will probably experiment with
> > > putting Tame on it.
> >
> > Rafe, I just was playing around with XyWrite and some other programs
> > in Ubuntu 9.10 to see what sort of CPU usage I was getting, and
> > though Xy4 spiked when starting, shutting down and running some
> > searches across a lot of files, it seemed well behaved otherwise. In
> > fact, it seemed to add very little to the baseline CPU usage when
> > typing, saving a file, and the like; System Monitor itself and
> > Firefox were more intensive CPU users. I double-checked this is Mint
> > 6 (U. 8.10) and got the same basic result tracking CPU usage with Conky.
> >
> >
> > Paul Lagasse