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Subject: Re: Curb feelers (was: Cray architecture)
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Summary: IBM RT meters
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In article <359@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> malcolm@spar.slb.com (Malcolm Slaney) writes:
> For my money I still
>prefer the SunView approach.  I like a pointer that quickly shows
>the average load.  It is just too hard to quantify the load with load
>bars.

I like Sun's perfmeters too.  For the totally minimal approach,
consider the new IBM RT's, which have a pair of 7-segment LED's
on the front panel that indicate the load average.

>P.S.  We could also talk about the (switching) power supply on my Sun
>that whines when the CPU gets busy.....

Yeah, X windows really makes it scream.  Could be a good heuristic
for the quality of a window system:  if it makes your cpu's circuit
boards vibrate, it might be too expensive :-) :-)

-- Scott Schwartz     schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu    schwartz@psuvaxg.bitnet