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Article #2808Re: How does monitor.exe get its process info?
From: Dov Bai-MSI Visitor
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 14:29
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 14:29
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In article <1geda5INN5qe@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> murrayk@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (the Dodger) writes: >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. I tested this program with the Whetstone benchmark: It gave about 70% idle time but the program gave the right whetstone. I guess there is something wrong with MONITOR.EXE. > >Keith > >-- > ____ _____ ____ >Keith Murray / /___/ /\ \ \ \____ P.O. Box 1889 >murrayk@prism.cs.orst.edu /___ / / /__\ \____\ ____\ Corvallis OR 97339 > the Dodger s o f t w\ a r e
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu!bai From: bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) Subject: Re: How does monitor.exe get its process info? Message-ID: <1992Dec13.142934.570@tc.cornell.edu> Sender: news@tc.cornell.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu Organization: /usr/local/lib/news/organization References: <1geda5INN5qe@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 14:29:34 GMT Lines: 31