Resource meter tells porkies?
 

High, I was around a friends house the other day, and he has this strange
behaviour of system monitor.

Some software, he showed me freecell, but it does it at other times as well,
seems to make the processor usage on the graph go to 100 percent and stay
there, but the little resource figures pull back once the activity dies down
and are what you would expect from a 233mhz machine, though thereafter the
machine seems jerky.

is this some known bug of the utility, or is this some early warning of a
potential problem.

Brian

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It is a bug in the utility. System Monitor is well known for its wholly inaccurate
reporting of processor usage. Have your friend use Wintop from the old Win95 Kernel
Toys, or Process Explorer from Sysinternals:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr.../procexp.shtml
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Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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High, I was around a friends house the other day, and he has this strange
behaviour of system monitor.

Some software, he showed me freecell, but it does it at other times as well,
seems to make the processor usage on the graph go to 100 percent and stay
there, but the little resource figures pull back once the activity dies down
and are what you would expect from a 233mhz machine, though thereafter the
machine seems jerky.

is this some known bug of the utility, or is this some early warning of a
potential problem.

Brian

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Thanks for the info. We love Windoze. don't we?

:-)

Brian

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"glee" wrote in message
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It is a bug in the utility. System Monitor is well known for its wholly
inaccurate
reporting of processor usage. Have your friend use Wintop from the old
Win95 Kernel
Toys, or Process Explorer from Sysinternals:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr.../procexp.shtml
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
...
High, I was around a friends house the other day, and he has this strange
behaviour of system monitor.

Some software, he showed me freecell, but it does it at other times as
well,
seems to make the processor usage on the graph go to 100 percent and stay
there, but the little resource figures pull back once the activity dies
down
and are what you would expect from a 233mhz machine, though thereafter
the
machine seems jerky.

is this some known bug of the utility, or is this some early warning of a
potential problem.

Brian

--

Brian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email.
graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them
Email:

__________________________________________________ __________________________________
__________________________