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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:	DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:	See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:	STAR::VATNE

Created:	Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:	Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3726
Total number of notes:	19516

548.0. "Help with CPU usage!" by STAR::CDUNN (Luck has nothing to do with it!) Thu Apr 06 1989 16:56

	Quick question: I used to keep a DECW$NOTES process and a DECW$MAIL 
process around all the time so that I would not have to start them. What I
discovered is that not only do they take up LOTS of virtual memory (expected)
but they are chewing up 2% of the available CPU per process, all the time!
This includes when they are ICONized (sp?). I understand that MAIL is polling
for new mail, but what on earth is NOTES doing? How can I reduce the amount of
CPU used by these processes when they are inactive? I.E. ICONized..
Is there some parameter I can poke to make MAIL poll less often? 

							/CD

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
548.1	blinking cursor	RWCVAX::COULSON	Roger Coulson DTN 223-6158	`Thu Apr 06 1989 17:02`	10
	RE: .0 There is an earlier note about this somewhere in this conference. The problem is that both MAIL and NOTES are polling trying to blink the cursor. I have something in my DECW$Xdefaults.dat to stop it. I think it is "*blinkRate: 0". /s/ Roger
548.2		AITG::DERAMO	Daniel V. {AITG,ZFC}:: D'Eramo	`Thu Apr 06 1989 18:43`	8
	I've never tried it, but supposedly *defaults.pollSeconds: 15 in DECW$MAIL.DAT is the resource for mail polling. Dan
548.3		GOSOX::RYAN	DECwindows Mail	`Fri Apr 07 1989 08:29`	4
	Yep, Dan (.2) has it right, use *defaults.pollSeconds. Mike
548.4	go by input focuus	SMAUG::FLOWERS	IBM Interconnect Eng. 226-7716	`Fri Apr 07 1989 10:32`	10
	> problem is that both MAIL and NOTES are polling trying to blink the > cursor. I have something in my DECW$Xdefaults.dat to stop it. I think I don't know how they've implemented blinking. But when our application loses input focus we stop the timer events for blinking. (And naturally when we get a FocusIn event we make sure we're blinking again...) Ya? No? Dan
548.5	With a blink blink here anda blink blink there....	TOOLS::NETH	Craig Neth	`Fri Apr 07 1989 11:33`	16
	> problem is that both MAIL and NOTES are polling trying to blink the > cursor. I have something in my DECW$Xdefaults.dat to stop it. That's not true. Something in the toolkit would appear to be trying to blink. From a discussion with the Notes people, I know that notes has no code to explicitly blink cursors. At any rate, putting the line *blinkRate: 0 in either your NOTES$DEFAULT.DAT or DECW$XDEFAULTS.DAT will stop the blinking and thus stop the CPU consumption. Craig
548.6	Great stuff! Thanks!	STAR::CDUNN	Luck has nothing to do with it!	`Fri Apr 07 1989 12:29`	10
	Ah, .-1 had the info I was looking for, which was where to put these great commands everyone was giving me! I am not a sophisticated user of DECwindows yet. I have but one alteration to the DECwindows environment that is not made through the available menus. Thanks for all the information! /CD
548.7	Where do you do this?	HPSCAD::MAYER		`Fri Jul 28 1989 14:51`	11
	RE:.5 > At any rate, putting the line > > *blinkRate: 0 > > in either your NOTES$DEFAULT.DAT or DECW$XDEFAULTS.DAT will stop the > blinking and thus stop the CPU consumption. On which machine do you do this? On the client or the server?
548.8		PSW::WINALSKI	Meetings are our most important product	`Fri Jul 28 1989 16:09`	6
	RE: .7 On the client system. --PSW
548.9	Well, you have a choice, really	DECWIN::KLEIN		`Fri Jul 28 1989 16:26`	12
	> in either your NOTES$DEFAULT.DAT or DECW$XDEFAULTS.DAT will stop the >> On which machine do you do this? On the client or the server? NOTES$DEFAULT.DAT - on the system running NOTES, your client system DECW$XDEFAULTS.DAT - on the system running the session manager, usually the server system -steve-