Looking for a tool that can slow down my machine
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Those utilities used for "overclocking" your uP probably can be employed to under clock it as well, slowing down your machine.
MrPlankton
Unless you have a custom built PC probably not. OEM hardware generally doesn't support any of that sort of fiddling. If you do have mobo support for it though, slashing the bus speed and CPU multiplier will work well.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
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My question is why would you want to do that? I'v never had to do something like that so I'm curious of the reasoning.
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Debugging a kind of race condition, only the condition isn't between threads in the same application, but between program's with a fairly complex IPC method (Windows Service's & TCP). If I can slow one program down, I'll be able to debug through the issue to find the root cause. Well, that's the theory anyway :~
- Dy
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My question is why would you want to do that? I'v never had to do something like that so I'm curious of the reasoning.
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leckey wrote:
My question is why would you want to do that? I'v never had to do something like that so I'm curious of the reasoning.
Client requirement: Must run on a p3-1000 class machine. If you can throttling is much easier than scrounging an old box. While the light at the end of the tunnel is finally visible, I have a p3-450 box with NT4 sitting on my desk for occasional testing.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
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Can anyone recommend a debugging tool that can slow down my machine? Or even better, one that could slow down a single application?
- Dy
To slow the machine down - install Vista. To slow an app down - install it on your shiny new Vista installation.
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I have found one of those via google, and will use it if I can't see anything else, but really I'm looking for something that can slow down just one application
- Dy
maybe right click the application in taskmanager and select 'low' priority, don't know if that will help much.
MrPlankton
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Can anyone recommend a debugging tool that can slow down my machine? Or even better, one that could slow down a single application?
- Dy
Synmantec Antivirus
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Can anyone recommend a debugging tool that can slow down my machine? Or even better, one that could slow down a single application?
- Dy
A better option is to get an old system off eBay or a neighbor. Simply slowing the CPU clock doesn't mimic that the entire hardware is slower. Moreover, slower, older systems tend to have less memory--I have one such beast in my kitchen that we use for web surfing, word processing and light weight games.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Can anyone recommend a debugging tool that can slow down my machine? Or even better, one that could slow down a single application?
- Dy
in the early version of MS Visual C++ there was an application called stress.exe
Steve
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Synmantec Antivirus
Beat you to it (see my post above). For a double whammy, install Lotus Notes at the same time.
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Beat you to it (see my post above). For a double whammy, install Lotus Notes at the same time.
Software Zen:
delete this;
Fold With Us![^]Damn it's almost a spontaneous reaction when I hear a slow machine I automatically retort "Synamtec Antivirus". :)
