guzzle.c

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/*
 * guzzle: Sit in the background in a long loop and display 
 * characters on the console occasionally.
 *
 * This is intended to help with scheduler testing.
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#define  TOP     1<<25  /* real long loop */

/* This program is a ridiculous, compute-bound program */
/* We should schedule this at low priorities. */

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        volatile int i;
        int ch = '+';

        if (argc == 2) {
                ch = argv[1][0];
        }

        for (i=0; i<TOP; i++) { /* tight loop */
                                /* that eats up cycles */
                if ( (i%10000) == 0) {
                        putchar(ch);
                }
        }
        return 0;
}