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* SYSTEM MONITOR Version 3.0 *
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Mulithreaded Program running as a status-bar reporting system
Performance and activity of your machine running OS/2.
The features monitored are freely configurable, so you just see
what you like :-)
(Pop-up Menu is brought up by clicking the right mouse-button on the bar)
To provide you with a program that has a unique name, SysMon will from
now on be known as pmSysMon (ArchiveName : pmSysMxx.zip).
INSTALLING:
NO CHANGES are made to your CONFIG.SYS and .INI files :-)
EITHER copy the files in a directory you prefer and start PMSYSMON.EXE
You can create a program object on the desktop, and put it into
the STARTUP-FOLDER in order to have pmSysMon start every time you boot;
OR (EVEN EASIER) start the INSTALL.CMD-file, which asks you whether
you want to copy the important files into a separate directory,
if you have MMOS2 support, and if you want a program-object on the
desktop.
If you are updating an older version, just install/unpack pmSysMon into the
same directory so your old .ini file will be used - so your configuration
won't be lost. We suggest you backup your old .ini file, because
the new version adds some items.
Because of the new name you can delete SysMon.EXE and SysMon.HLP.
pmSysMon will convert you old SysMon.INI to pmSysMon.INI - after that
you can delete SysMon.INI.
UNINSTALLING:
In the event that you wish to remove pmSysMon from your system:-(
Simple as can be : Just delete the files and desktop-object (if created)
We would ask you to send us a short message about why you are doing this.
IMPORTANT:
pmSysMon permanently calibrates the CPU activity, so the longer it runs
the more accurate the measurements are.
The value is based on the lowest performance since pmSysMon was started.
Therefore again: putting pmSysMon in the STARTUP-FOLDER gives the best
results.
Do not try to measure how many resources pmSysMon needs with IBM's Pulse
(or a program like that) - these monitoring tools will just block each
other, so the values you get are meaningless.
FEATURES
1) Time and Date - Time and Date in the format you configured OS/2 with
2) Uptime - Time since boot
(can now optionally be displayed in a more compact way)
3) CPU - activity - Shows how busy your system is
(graphically as a triangle or pulse and/or text)
4) AvgCpu - Average CPU load since program start
5) VMem - Amount of free Virtual Memory
6) Physical Mem - Amount of free Physical Memory
7) Swap - Size of current Swap-File
8) SwapFree - Shows how much your swap-file can
be enlarged
9) Nr. of Tasks - Displays the number of tasks running at the moment.
10) Drives - You can choose as many drives as you like
to be monitored (showing their available space)
11) Especially for LAPTOP users:
- Displays the battery status in percent of full charge
Extra Options:
*) Wave - You can select a wave file which will be played
periodically, at time intervals you choose
(e.g. none, every quarter hour,...)
*) UpdateFrequncy - You can choose after how many seconds
the items 3)-8) are to be updated .
*) Font,Color - You can change the color of the bar's background,
foreground, of the pulse and of the triangle by
Drag & Drop.
You can also change the font by using Drag & Drop, and
the height of the bar will be adapted to the font size.
*) Borderwidth - You can adapt the width of border surrounding the bar
(which causes the 3-dim. look) to your liking.
*) NumLock - If you like, pmSysMon can turn NumLock on
at program start.
*) Shrink - pmSysMon can now shrink to minimum width, so it only
needs as much room on your screen as needed to
accommodate the items displayed.
*) Long Names - You can choose whether you want long descriptions
in the bar e.g. 'Virtual Mem' and 'UpTime',
or if you prefer abbreviations e.g. 'VMem','Up'
*) Show Seconds - Choose if you want a time display with or without seconds.
*) DiskSpace in % - You can select if the free diskspace of the selected
drives shall be displayed in bytes or in percent.
*) Alarm if Low
on DiskSpace - You can monitor the free space on any drives you like -
if it gets below a certain minimum you can choose,
an alarm tone is played and a dialog shows you which
drive caused the warning.
There you have the possibility of searching this drive
for unneeded files (like *.tmp)and for viewing and
deleting them.
This is also an easy way to delete the contents of your
Undelete and temporary directory.
Utilities:
1) Run - Easy launching of applications
2) Task - pmSysMon's own Task List optionally replaces the system
Window List, so that pressing both mouse buttons
brings it to the top.
This Tasklist is now more compact and will stay open
even after losing the focus, if you configure it like
that.
The Task List updates itself, even while it is open,
if e.g. a program is started or terminated.
MultitaskSelection is now possible.
The size and position of the Tasklist are saved so
that it always appears in the same place.
Lists all running tasks
After selecting 'Info' you see:
*) the Process ID
*) Session
*) ProgType (WindowAPI,...)
*) Visibility
You can:
*) Kill any task
*) Quit any task (unsaved data won't be lost)
either by pressing Del or with mouse
*) Switch to any task
*) Minimize any task
*) Sort by PID or Name
*) use Filters so that only visible or only
jumpable Tasks are displayed.
3) Disk - shows information about all drives on your system
*) Filesystem (HPFS,CDFS,FAT,..)
*) Location (local ,remote...)
*) Removable
*) Description (fixed disk, not ready , ...)
*) Volume label
*) Total space
*) Free space
*) Used space
You can also open the corresponding drive-folder here.
Additionally, you can search the selected drive for any files
(also by Regular Expression) and then delete the unnecessary
ones or