Hi Peter!

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 PF> Here's the beef:  DosSleep(0) releases the remainder of the current...
 PF> DosSleep(1) will cause the current thread to to marked as idle. ...
Jep, I see. I thought it must be this way or alike.

 PF> Moral of the story:  Call DosSleep(1) in your polling loops,  or else
 PF> "Pulse" will be unhappy.
:)

 PF> The "Pulse" program is not very useful,  but we are all stuck
 PF> programming for it, now that all the lusers are running it.
But well, if I increase the number of running threads, the overall
performance goes down - that's why I think the system is fully loaded. I
only wanted to determine OS/2's thread-switching-time. But I found it to be
really difficult how to gain precise results - I think the switching time
is below 55 microsecs on a 486/66. But as someone claimed here QNX would do
this on only 6 microsecs, I wanted to know it exactly.

 PF> What this does not show,  and which is much more interesting,  is if
 PF> the CPU is available for demand...
You're absolutely right, but how is there a way to measure this ?  
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