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Version 1.1a of CPUMeter is available!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christof Pastors)
Mon Oct 7 10:47:51 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 4 Oct 1996 13:24:14 GMT
From: pastors@eev.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Christof Pastors)
Reply-To: pastors@eev.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Christof Pastors)
Reply-to: pastors@eev.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Christof Pastors)
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File-URLs: http://eev11.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de/cpumeter.html
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/.../os2/wpsutil/cpumt11a.zip
Version 1.1a of CPUMeter is available!
Thanks to the people who gave me feedback about version 1.0 . I could improve
many things in the new version...
What's new?
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- Faster drawing, less memory requirement
- More Subwindows and more information shown
- A lot of user configurable settings
- True color support
- Adapted to WARP 4 (Merlin)
- Can work together with WarpCenter
Easy registration:
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It is easier now to register because the well known company BMTMicro handles
the Shareware registration of CPUMeter. Have a look to the help file for more
information..
What does CPUMeter do?
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It is a native OS/2 PM application that gives a graphical display of the actual
CPU load. Oh no, another PULSE like app you say??
But CPUMeter uses a VERY different method to calculate the actual load and
therefore can give YOU A LOT OF INFORMATION!!!
Unlike other programs it uses a OS/2-kernel function (DosQueryProcStat) to
determine the consumed CPU-time of each process. Other programs create a idle
thread that executes a counting loop to determine the CPU load. The way
CPUMeter works has several advantages over PULSE like apps :
- No need to create a counting idle-thread that steals all idle time from
other programs. So other useful things can be done with idle-priority.
- With CPUMeter the CPU is really idle when nothing else is to do. The OS/2
kernel then halts the CPU until the next interrupt occurs. This decreases
power consumption dramatically what is VERY USEFUL FOR NOTEBOOKS and
LAPTOPS!!
- CPUMeter can show the process that actually consumes most CPU-time.
- CPUMeter can even show a list of all processes and their consumed CPU-time.
- For your convenience i added a process killer to this process list.
CPUMeter is a SHAREWARE application, feel free to try it. The registration
charge is 20$.
The name of the zipfile is CPUMt11a.zip, it can be found at
HOBBES ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/wpsutil/cpumt11a.zip
For a short time, the zipfile can be found in the incoming-directory on this
server. It can be a good idea to have a look at my WWW-sever, new versions of
CPUMeter will first be seen at this location:
http://eev11.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de/cpumeter.html
http://eev21.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de/cpumeter.html
Feel free to contact me if you have suggestions (or found one of those rare
bugs that could have survived many debug-sessions)
Christof Pastors
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