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    From Immortal@21:1/185 to All on Sat Oct 21 11:22:58 2017
    Has anyone ever figured out why TEOS runs fast one one machine (or vm) and
    runs slow on another? So weird. It runs normally on one VM and then I copy
    it to another without changing anything and it's slow. It was running fast on my single processor VPS and now on a 4 core machine and its slow. Makes no sense.

    Immortal

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Immortal on Tue Oct 24 21:07:14 2017
    On 10/21/17, Immortal pondered and said...

    Has anyone ever figured out why TEOS runs fast one one machine (or vm)
    and runs slow on another? So weird. It runs normally on one VM and

    Sad to say I know not what this is but my sad geeky self misread this to
    start with and I thought you were talking about the original star trek TOS to start with :)

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  • From bcw142@21:1/145.5 to Immortal on Tue Oct 24 16:34:56 2017
    On 10/21/17, Immortal said the following...

    Has anyone ever figured out why TEOS runs fast one one machine (or vm)
    and runs slow on another? So weird. It runs normally on one VM and
    then I copy it to another without changing anything and it's slow. It
    was running fast on my single processor VPS and now on a 4 core machine and its slow. Makes no sense.

    Your looking at it wrong. The single processor machine has a high clock rate, the 4 core machine has four cores at slower rates. The software is likely designed for 1 core so runs slower on the 4 core machine as it's running all
    in just one of the four cores. It's very common in older software.

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    * Origin: BCW Livingroom (21:1/145.5)
  • From Immortal@21:1/185 to bcw142 on Tue Oct 24 18:39:30 2017
    On 10/24/17, bcw142 said the following...

    On 10/21/17, Immortal said the following...

    Has anyone ever figured out why TEOS runs fast one one machine (or vm and runs slow on another? So weird. It runs normally on one VM and then I copy it to another without changing anything and it's slow. I was running fast on my single processor VPS and now on a 4 core machi and its slow. Makes no sense.

    Your looking at it wrong. The single processor machine has a high clock rate, the 4 core machine has four cores at slower rates. The software is likely designed for 1 core so runs slower on the 4 core machine as it's running all in just one of the four cores. It's very common in older software.

    I suppose that makes sense. Although it ran fast on a 33 mhz CPU, so I wouldn't think that running it on any modern processor would cause a slow
    down reguardless of how many cores it has or if it's a slightly slower rate.

    Also by slow I don't mean not blazing fast like all the other doors, I mean slow as in it displays line by line like as if it were coming across the
    modem at 1200 baud.

    Immortal

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  • From bcw142@21:1/145.5 to Immortal on Mon Oct 30 14:46:46 2017
    On 10/24/17, Immortal said the following...
    Also by slow I don't mean not blazing fast like all the other doors, I mean slow as in it displays line by line like as if it were coming
    across the modem at 1200 baud.

    Have you checked the settings? Maybe there is a speed setting. I don't really know TEOS, but some other terminals have speed settings.

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    * Origin: BCW Livingroom (21:1/145.5)
  • From Pequito@21:1/126 to Immortal on Wed Nov 1 19:20:02 2017
    On 10/21/17, Immortal said the following...

    Has anyone ever figured out why TEOS runs fast one one machine (or vm)
    and runs slow on another? So weird. It runs normally on one VM and
    then I copy it to another without changing anything and it's slow. It
    was running fast on my single processor VPS and now on a 4 core machine and its slow. Makes no sense.

    Not sure if anyone responded to this but here is how I am setup using DOSEMU for TEOS and it works fine like the other doors.

    --[snip batch file]--
    @echo off
    cd \apps\game\teo
    planfair

    if exist info.3 del info.3
    if exist do3.bat del do3.bat

    :begin
    planets 3 %2 %3 %4 %5 /drew
    if errorlevel 255 goto done
    if errorlevel 254 goto do1
    goto done

    :do1
    call do3.bat
    goto begin

    :done
    if exist info.3 del info.3
    if exist do3.bat del do3.bat

    :realdone
    exitemu
    --[snip end batch file]--

    **Seth Able's Node Data System, for node 1
    BBSNAME Twinkle BBS
    BBSTYPE DOORSYS
    ;COMPORT 0
    FOSSIL
    LOCKBAUD 0
    STATUS ON
    STATFORE 3
    STATBACK 7
    ;COLOR1
    ;NODIRECT
    ;UNUSED
    BBSDROP \TEMP1
    ;UNUSED
    ;UNUSED
    ;UNUSED

    This is the node#.dat files you create in the folder above.

    I also use BNU fossil drive 1.70 in case the door needs it, I found the internal fossil sucked pretty big.

    http://www.pcmicro.com/bnu/bnu170.zip

    my command line for this in autoexec.bat is:
    bnu.com /F+ /M-

    this prevents any on screen writing for the fossil driver stating its being used when the door is loaded.

    Last question is for you what version are you using, I have 2.02 with some addons loaded and seems to be fine.

    Also for DOSEMU check the conf:
    /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf

    $_hogthreashold = (10)

    This is what I have it set to, play with it to see what works best but found this seems to do the trick for every game I run.

    Let me know if any of this helps!

    Cheers!
    Pequito

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  • From Immortal@21:1/185 to Pequito on Thu Nov 2 18:53:48 2017
    On 11/01/17, Pequito said the following...

    Not sure if anyone responded to this but here is how I am setup using DOSEMU for TEOS and it works fine like the other doors.

    Ahh, changing the hogthreshold seems to have done the trick. I'll also try changing the fossil driver. Thanks man

    Immortal

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  • From Pequito@21:1/126 to Immortal on Thu Nov 2 22:54:46 2017
    On 11/02/17, Immortal said the following...

    On 11/01/17, Pequito said the following...

    Not sure if anyone responded to this but here is how I am setup using DOSEMU for TEOS and it works fine like the other doors.

    Ahh, changing the hogthreshold seems to have done the trick. I'll also try changing the fossil driver. Thanks man


    No problem, glad it worked out for you!

    Cheers!
    Pequito

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A35 (Linux/32)
    * Origin: Twinkle BBS # (21:1/126)