[Goodie] Squeak system load display

Bert Freudenberg bert at isgnw.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De
Tue Mar 14 08:19:34 UTC 2000


On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Lex Spoon wrote:

> An even better way would be to somehow put a load meter in the idle process. 

Surely that would be better, especially as it wouldn't rely on Morphic.

> That way, you could notice CPU usage by low-priority background threads.

IMHO, because the interCyclePause idle measuring is absolute, all
system activities are taken into account. If the system is busy, it won't
get that soon back into interCyclePause, so the idle time is shorter.

  -Bert-





More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list