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I recently downloaded the file cpumon3.zip from hobbes that contains the
monitor program from BonAmi Software. This seems like a very powerful cpu
monitor program, though it's hard to tell because very nearly every menu
option is disabled. 8^(.

However, looking from a programmer's point of view: How the hell does the
program get the kind of information that it displays? Is it very accurate?
I've only got a 33mhz 386 and when I make a project with CSet/2 that takes
about 10 minutes to compile, My processor is idle at least 50% of the time,
even while downloading (2400 baud...) in the background with many other utils
running also. Is this real? I suppose that my processor could be waiting around
for the disk (SCSI) and memory quite a bit. But that still leaves the question
of how you can get that accurate of information. I've seen it done on every
UNIX system I've seen, but never on OS/2. The other monitors available are not
accurate at all, not to say they are not usefull.

I'm just curious. I would like to be able to get some serious system statistics
for myself and I'm wondering how it can be done.

Keith

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