On Tue, 2 May 2000, Krisztian Flautner wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could simulate a slower
> clock speed on my machine without actually changing the crystal?
> I would like to make my machine seem like a 45Mhz machine instead
> of the 450Mhz machine it actually is. The simulation does not
> need to be perfect, I would just like the first order effects
> (i.e. slower execution time). I would like this to work on SMP
> machines as well...
>
> I guess what is required involves changing the default time slice
> and forcing the scheduler to wait for a certain time after running
> each task. My concern is that it would really screw up timing
> critical parts.
>
> What are your suggestions, is this doable or should I just hack
> the box to run at a slower speed? Has anyone done this before?
Why do you want to do this?
Cheers,
Mark Zealey
mark@itsolve.co.uk
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