Date: Thu, 06 May 93 10:11:04 PDT
From: Peter Crowley <pcrowley AT qdeck DOT com>
To: softbrek AT POOL DOT Informatik DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE, hallvard AT imm DOT unit DOT no
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT EDU
Subject: Re[2]: Swaping on program exit!?

>To make it short, I`m experiencing the same somehow weird thing Wonkoo did:
>
>I`ve got a DGJPP version of NETHACK 3.1 last week, installed it on my
>486/50Mhz/8MB - Machine, and it runs quite fine, without any heavy disk
>activity (Why should it, in 8MB ?? ;-) ), but at the end, when I quit
>the game, there's an amount of disk activity as if it were switching my whole
>8MB out and in again at least once.


I tried this with xnethack and had a noticable delay on quit. I imagine that a
system() call is being made on exit. e.g. system("copy logfile logfile.sac");

I cannot check this because I don't have source.

Peter Crowley
Quarterdeck Offices Systems
pcrowley AT qdeck DOT com