On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Zbigniew <zbigniew2...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are various tools for Windows/Linux, which can display actual > CPU workload. Since DOS doesn't do multitasking, my guess is, that > here "external" utility won't be of any use. But DOS-program could > have it built-in. Could someone tell me the basic algorithm, which > could be used in DOS applications, to build such "CPU-load-display" > directly into program?
While it *can* be done, I'm not sure why you want to. On a multi-tasking OS like Windows or Linux, I'll use Process Explorer (Win) or top (Linux), to get an idea of which programs are hitting the CPU. But I'm usually interested in more than CPU load. Most PCs are I/O bound, not compute bound, and the CPU spends a lot of time in an idle loop waiting on something. For a DOS program where I was concerned in getting the maximum performance, I'd probably insert profiling code to see just where the CPU was spending its time to optimize critical parts, but that would generate an after run report, not a real-time display. I'm not sure what the value of a real-time display of CPU load on a DOS app would be. It actually *is* possible to get DOS to multi-task. The PRINT command did that to create a background print spooler, so you could send a job to the printer and not have to wait till it finished printing to return to your program. PRINT installed as a resident extension to DOS and grabbed CPU cycles from the foreground task to handle the spooling. (I ran the MKS Toolkit, which provided a Unix like environment, and used MKS Korn shell aliases to fake the Unix lp command using PRINT.) Programmers reverse engineering what MS had done created the whole TSR mini-industry. > Z. ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
