Multithreaded Squeak

Brent Vukmer bvukmer at blackboard.com
Wed Nov 27 14:19:10 UTC 2002


I second David's motion!  Disk & network interaction would be great, in 
addition to "wall clock" time. Is it possible to calculate CPU time, as 
well?

David T. Lewis wrote:

>On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:39:02AM -0800, John M McIntosh wrote:
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>>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?
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>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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