Im stuck... I need to think of a way of getting the cpu up to around 90% utilisation for a set amount of time...

An app runs too quick

so need to click on icon 90% launch app, then when exe has been quit or whatever back down to normal...

.NET only please!

or ideas on how... thought about a couple of threads running doing a bit of maths...

David

 

calculate pi - that's an iterative process you can do for x seconds.

 

come on then you owe us a favour!

And dont say you havent got .net

David

 

IIRC there was a tool called Stressmon.exe which would allow you to do this kind of thing. I think it was part of MSVC 5 or 6.

 

stfw reveals nothing?

David

 

does it have to be 90% - Seti would get you 100% easily ....

Deano

 

hot cpu gets a canny bit!

just ran Prime95, that use's 90-100%!





[Edited by super_si - 10/30/2002 3:34:39 PM]

 

thanks si

have you been drinking again?

 

If the app runs too quickly use System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(x) to send the thread to sleep for x milliseconds - don't hose the processor just to slow your app down.

If however you want to slow another process down (some 3rd party software, for example), go to Task Manager and lower it's priority first.
Then write a small app that does a simple loop with a couple of tiny sleeps in it (only a millisecond or so), but creates hundreds of threads. Basically you are trying to force down the number of timeslices (as a proportion of the total your CPU allocates) available to the "too quick" thread. You system performance may suffer

 

MS Stress Tool is part of the SDK. OK, it isn't .Net but might help.

Let me know if you don't have a copy, I'm sure I coul dig a copy out from my toppling pile of MSDN DVDs

Cheers

Ian

 

A little from column, and a little from column B

 

Kevin, aint one of my apps.. Im not that bad at programming

Told them they cant have the app... much easier..

David