Pulse - The CPU Monitor

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The original BeBox had a pair of processor load indicator lights running up and down, in the rhythm with every move of the OS.

Pulse - The CPU Monitor

With the multitasking capabilities in Zeta, users might want to check and control how much of their computer's processor time is being used. Each running application on the Zeta system has a small slice of time it can use to complete it's task. As more and more applications use the system, there are fewer slices to give out.

Pulse can illustrate how busy your system is on a graph. If you have multiple processors, one graph is shown for each processor. As a developer, having a computer multiple processor, you might be interested in how the application that you are developing runs on one processor. You can in a simple way within the application turn of processors (only if you have more than on processor). But it is not possible to turn off all processors, the system will always keep one of the running. Zeta supports up to eight processors. When turning of a processor or more, no restart is needed. The changes are done in real-time. Doing this while rendering a picture, you will actually see how the speed of rendering process goes up and down.

The graph is by default running as an application, but can also be placed in the Replicant Shelf in the Deskbar.

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