TobiWan Apprentice
Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 275 Location: Brussels, Old Europe
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 1:26 pm Post subject: Optimizing Bochs performance? |
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Hi everybody,
I emerged Bochs and installed the vga font manually for X and now it works. I followed the how-to on bochs.sourceforce.net and I'm in the process of installing Windows 98SE... since yesterday. File copying in the Windows setup started yesterday evening and now - 18 hours later - it's still at 68%.
I knew that Bochs was slow, but that slow is just ridiculous. I guess my brain could emulate a faster Pentium...
I checked whether my system wasn't a fast enough platform for Bochs, but Bochs takes only about 14% to 16% of CPU. I have 1.25GB RAM and spended 256MB on the Bochs process.
Now my question: How can I optimize Bochs? Is there something I can do inside Bochs configuration files or should I try giving the Bochs process a higher priority?
How does a normal user give a process a higher priority, assuming that process is started inside a shell?
Please help me out here because I actually expected to have a running Windows 98SE installation this week...
thanks,
Tobias _________________ Killing for peace is like fucking for virginity. |
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