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Date:	Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:00:52 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: cpu load monitor ?

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> I read to this mean that TOP is not an absolute load
> monitor rather that it reports relative CPU utilization
> which is why the percentages always add up to 100%.

That's what the TOP output looks like.

> FWIW, the data returned by the DosQProcStatus call
> that Paul uses could but used to report per process
> CPU load, with some caveats. See
>
> <http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/info/proc.zip>

I already did, but thanks.

> TOP does report CPU loading indirectly in the Total CPU column

Well, sort of. You would have to capture two sequential screens, add
the CPU loading columns, subtract one from the other, and divide that by
the time between the two screens.

- Peter

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