Multithreaded Squeak

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Wed Nov 27 13:37:05 UTC 2002


On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:39:02AM -0800, John M McIntosh wrote:
> Actually that reminded me, a year or more back I had a changeset that  
> added some instance variables to Process that allowed you
> to assign an identifier, but more importantly in  
> Interpreter>>transferTo: it had logic to track how many clock ms that  
> the process had
> executed for. Thus you could see exactly how much wall clock time a  
> process got, versus the current method of guessing.
> 
> I also consider collecting say disk interaction, and network  
> interaction on a process basis, but no-one seems interested. Think of  
> the Unix top command.
> 
> So let me ask is there interest in the clock time data?

Yes please. It would also be nice if you can make it available through
Squeak Map.

Ned's ProcessBrowser is a wonderful thing. Being able to add some
additional information to processes would be even better.

Dave




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