═══ 1. Copyright Information ═══ Copyright (c) BonAmi Software Corporation, 1991, 1992. All rights reserved. For all product information, please contact: BonAmi Software Corporation 60 Thoreau Street, Suite 219 Concord, Massachusetts 01742 U.S.A. Telephone: (508) 371-1997 ═══ 2. Contacting BonAmi ═══ For all product information, please contact: BonAmi Software Corporation 60 Thoreau Street, Suite 219 Concord, Massachusetts 01742 U.S.A. Telephone: (508) 371-1997 ═══ 3. Help for Help ═══ Most of the menu items have help available. Select Extended Help for an overview of CPU Monitor. Select Keys Help for a description of the special key assignments and combinations used by CPU Monitor. ═══ 4. Keys Help ═══ The special keys and key-combinations usable in CPU Monitor are: F1 Display context sensitive help; Shift-F3 Save current selections and preferences; Ctrl-0 Display the percent CPU time used by each process; Ctrl-1 Display all processes; Ctrl-2 Display the percent CPU idle time; Ctrl-3 Display all process threads; Ctrl-C Modify system defaults and configuration; Ctrl-D Disable the timed display; Ctrl-E Enable the timed display; Ctrl-F Display specific data fields; Ctrl-K Kill a specified process; Ctrl-L Log output to a file; Ctrl-N Update the display now! Ctrl-O Modify how the display is ordered; Ctrl-P Change a thread's priority; Ctrl-R Recalibrate CPU timing used by CPU Monitor; Ctrl-S Select specific processes and threads to display; Ctrl-T Start a specified program; Ctrl-U Suspend a specified thread; Ctrl-V Select the customized display. Alt-B Copy current screen to the clipboard as a bitmap. Alt-T Copy the complete current display to the clipboard as text. ═══ 5. About CPU Monitor ═══ Use CPU Monitor to monitor and control the programs executing on your computer. CPU Monitor provides you with facilities to: o Start and stop programs under your control; o Change the execution priority and state for a process or its threads; o Continuously monitor the CPU usage for processes and threads. Under OS/2, a program, its data, and its threads of execution are collectively called a process. A process is created when a program is loaded into memory by the OS/2 system loader (part of the OS/2 kernel). Threads in a process run independently, each with their own stack and execution privileges. OS/2 is multitasking in that threads from multiple processes all compete for and share the computer's CPU, memory, and device resources. CPU Monitor allows you to closely examine and control the operation of OS/2. You select the data that you want to monitor and how you want that data displayed. The Commands pull-down menu allows you to: o Start a new process from CPU Monitor; o Stop a currently executing process; o Change the execution priority of individual threads within a process; o Suspend a currently executing thread; o Instantaneously examine the current CPU Utilization data. Use the View pull-down menu to: o Select specific processes and threads to display; o Fully customize the CPU Monitor display; o Choose from several useful predefined displays. Use the Options menu to customize, enable, and disable the display. Also use this to set the statistics gathering parameters. Use the File pull-down menu to: o Log CPU Monitor output to a file; o Recalibrate the CPU timing used by CPU Monitor; o Save or reset current display selections and preferences; o UnInstall CPU Monitor; o Copy the CPU Monitor display to the clipboard in different formats. Additional help is available for all menu choices. To quit CPU Monitor, select Close from the System Menu or the Window/Task list. ═══ 6. File Menu Help ═══ Commands available from the File menu are: o Log output to a file; o Recalibrate CPU Monitor for your computer; o Save current display options; o Reset selectable display options; o UnInstall CPU Monitor from OS/2; o Copy CPU Monitor display to the clipboard. ═══ 6.1. Log Menu Item ═══ Use this to change the file logging status. Select a file for file logging, or disable file logging. When logging is enabled and a log file has been selected, CPU Monitor copies the displayed system data to the log file. The rate at which new data is appended to the log file is determined by the display frequency setting. New data is appended each time the screen is updated. The display frequency rate may be modified via the Configure menu item. Note: Data may be logged to at most one file at a time. File logging can also be automatically enabled when CPU Monitor starts via a Command Line switch. See the User's Guide for details on using the command line switches. The log dialog is selected from the File Menu or with the Ctrl-L hot key. ═══ 6.2. Recalibrate Menu Item ═══ Use this to recalibrate the CPU timing for your computer. Calibration refers to the CPU Utilization estimates that CPU Monitor provides for its own threads. Note: Recalibration is only relevant if the statistics are currently gathered using the Alternate frequency selection. In this case, and under heavy system loads, CPU Monitor's internal processing and timing loops may take longer to execute than the original calibration estimated. Recalibrating under these circumstances may improve the CPU Utilization accuracy to some degree. CPU Monitor performs an initial calibration for your computer each time you restart OS/2. This setting will perform well for all applications and development activities. Recalibrating is only provided for consistency with previous CPU Monitor versions and as explained above. For all other cases, recalibration is no longer necessary. Recalibration is selected from the File Menu or with the Ctrl-R hot key. ═══ 6.3. Save Menu Item ═══ Use this to save the current program options and settings. When CPU Monitor is next started, the saved options will automatically be restored. The options saved are the current values for: o Screen colors; o Display window dimensions; o Display number base; o Display font; o Custom display fields and ordering; o Display frequency rate; o Statistics gathering frequency; o Currently selected display. Save is selected from the File Menu or with the Shift-F3 hot key. ═══ 6.4. Reset Menu Item ═══ Use this to reset all user selectable settings to their factory defaults. The following settings are reset: o Screen colors; o Display font; o Custom display fields and ordering; o Display frequency rate; o Statistics gathering frequency; o Default display; o Log file and logging status; o Display Enabled; o Selected processes in customized display. o Display number base; Note: Reset does not cause any of the reset settings to be saved. The Save menu option is required to save these values. Reset is selected from the File Menu. ═══ 6.5. UnInstall Menu Item ═══ To permanently unload CPU Monitor from your system, select UnInstall. References to the CPU Monitor device driver in the CONFIG.SYS file must be removed manually. The Un-Installation process will be complete only after the computer has been restarted. Of course, CPU Monitor may be reinstalled later at your convenience. For more details on the Installation and Un-Installation process, refer to the CPU Monitor User's Guide. UnInstall is selected from the File Menu. ═══ 6.6. Clipboard Menu Items ═══ There are two clipboard options available. Copy Bitmap copies a bitmap graphics image of the current CPU Monitor display to the clipboard. Copy Text copies the complete CPU Monitor display, including areas beyond the scroll regions, as text lines to the clipboard. Choose the clipboard copy option that is most convenient for your application. The clipboard commands are selected from the File Menu or with the Alt-B and Alt-T hot keys. ═══ 6.6.1. Copy Text to Clipboard Menu Item ═══ Use this to copy the current CPU Monitor display, including areas beyond any scroll regions, to the clipboard. Each line of the display is copied as unformatted text. No graphics are included. Choose Copy Bitmap to copy the current CPU Monitor display window as a graphical bitmap image to the clipboard. The Copy Text clipboard command is selected from the File Menu or with the Alt-T hot key. ═══ 6.6.2. Copy Bitmap to Clipboard Menu Item ═══ Use this to copy the CPU Monitor display as a graphical bitmap image to the clipboard. Only that portion of the display currently visible is included. Choose Copy Text to copy the full CPU Monitor display to the clipboard as individual lines of text. The Copy Bitmap clipboard command is selected from the File Menu or with the Alt-B hot key. ═══ 7. View Menu Help ═══ Commands available from the View menu are: o Select processes to monitor; o Set the display order criteria; o Choose the fields to include in the display. In addition, there are four pre-defined and one custom display options. They are: o Display the percent CPU time used by each process; o Display all processes; o Display the percent CPU Idle time; o Display all threads; o Display using the currently configured custom settings. ═══ 7.1. Select Menu Item ═══ Use this to select the specific processes and threads to be displayed. Only those processes chosen will be included in the display. This option is useful to focus on certain key processes. Select is selected from the View Menu or with the Ctrl-S hot key. ═══ 7.2. Ordering Menu Item ═══ Use this to choose how the individual items in the display are ordered. Choose ascending or descending ordering based upon: o Percent CPU Utilization; o Process ID; o Process Name; o Process Priority; o Session ID; o Parent's Process ID. Ordering is selected from the View Menu or with the Ctrl-O hot key. ═══ 7.3. Fields Menu Item ═══ Use this to select the specific data fields to include in the display. The following information can be included: o Process ID; o Process Name; o Process Priority; o Thread ID for each thread in the process; o Percent CPU time idle; o Process Execution State; o Session ID; o Percent CPU time used by process or thread; o Parent's Process ID; The field choices are preserved even if a pre-defined display mode is chosen. To return to the selected field choices, invoke the Customize view menu item. The field choices are not automatically preserved when CPU Monitor is terminated. To save these choices, select the Save menu item from the File menu. Fields is selected from the View Menu or with the Ctrl-F hot key. ═══ 7.4. CPU Time Menu Item ═══ Use this predefined display to view the Percent CPU time used by each process in decreasing order. View CPU Time is selected from the View Menu or with the Ctrl-0 hot key. ═══ 7.5. Process ID's Menu Item ═══ Use this predefined display to view information for all processes in Process ID order. View Process ID's is selected from the View Menu or with the Ctrl-1 hot key. ═══ 7.6. Idle Menu Item ═══ Use this predefined display to view the Percent CPU time idle. View Idle is selected from the View Menu or with the Ctrl-2 hot key. ═══ 7.7. Threads Menu Item ═══ Use this predefined display to view information for all threads in Process and Thread ID order. View Threads is selected from the View Menu or with the Ctrl-3 hot key. ═══ 7.8. Customize Menu Item ═══ Use this to select a customized display as specified by the Select, Fields, and Order menu items. View Custom is selected from the View Menu or with the Ctrl-V hot key. ═══ 8. Commands Menu Help ═══ Commands available from the Commands menu are: o Update the display now! o Kill a specified process; o Change a thread's priority; o Suspend a currently executing thread; o Start a specified program. ═══ 8.1. Update Now Item ═══ Use this to force an update of the latest statistics data. This will also update the log file if File Logging is enabled. Update Now! is selected from the Commands Menu or with the Ctrl-N hot key. ═══ 8.2. Kill Menu Item ═══ Use this to terminate a selected process. Note that programs may take preventive action to prevent being terminated. Also, in some cases a selected process cannot be terminated. When this occurs, a warning message will be displayed. Kill is selected from the Commands Menu or with the Ctrl-K hot key. ═══ 8.3. Priority Menu Item ═══ Use this to examine or change the execution priority of a process. Only those threads and processes belonging to most Presentation Manager application programs can have their priority changed. Note that CPU Monitor can also change its own execution priority if requested. Priority is selected from the Commands Menu or with the Ctrl-P hot key. ═══ 8.4. Start Menu Item ═══ Use this to start a program from CPU Monitor. The program executes independently from and asynchronously to CPU Monitor. Only OS/2 executable programs may be started from CPU Monitor. Batch files and DOS programs are not allowed. Start is selected from the Commands Menu or with the Ctrl-T hot key. ═══ 8.5. Suspend Menu Item ═══ Use this to suspend a currently executing thread or to restart a thread that has been suspended. Only those threads and processes belonging to most Presentation Manager application programs can be suspended and restarted. Suspend is selected from the Commands Menu or with the Ctrl-U hot key. ═══ 9. Options Menu Help ═══ Commands available from the Options menu are: o Disable the timed screen update; o Enable the timed screen update; o Configure. the CPU Monitor display and data collection. ═══ 9.1. Configure Menu Item ═══ Use this to configure the CPU Monitor display and statistics collection. Configuration parameters include: o Window colors; o Number base; o Screen font; o Display frequency; o Statistics gathering frequency. Configure is selected from the Options Menu or with the Ctrl-C hot key. ═══ 9.1.1. Colors Selection ═══ Use this to choose between different predefined color schemes. The current color selection can be saved using the Save menu option. Changing the color scheme is provided by the Configure Dialog. Select Configure from the Options Menu or with the Ctrl-C hot key. ═══ 9.1.2. Number Base Selection ═══ Use this to select either decimal (base 10) or hexadecimal (base 16) number displays. Hexadecimal values may be useful to correlate CPU Monitor displays with other OS/2 system and programming information. The default is to display all numbers as decimal integers. Note: CPU Percentages are always displayed in decimal integers regardless of the specified number base. Changing the number base is provided by the Configure Dialog. Select Configure from the Options Menu or with the Ctrl-C hot key. ═══ 9.1.3. Font Selection ═══ Use this to select a different fixed-width font size for the CPU Monitor display. The current display font can be saved using the Save menu option. Changing the display font is provided by the Configure Dialog. Select Configure from the Options Menu or with the Ctrl-C hot key. ═══ 9.1.4. Change gathering frequency ═══ Use this to change the statistics gathering method and frequency. There are two different modes of operation: o Statistics gathering using the CPU Monitor device driver; o Statistics gathering from CPU Monitor The Slow, Normal, and Fast options specify that statistical data be collected by the CPU Monitor device driver at a rate of 5, 10, and 32 times per second respectively. This method provides the highest level of accuracy for CPU utilization estimates. The Alternate method specifies that CPU Monitor itself gather all statistical information. This method is less accurate than using the CPU Monitor device driver since CPU Monitor runs as a standard OS/2 application. As such, its own CPU allocation is in contention with all other applications running on the system. Note: The Alternate method gathers data at a rate dependent on the display frequency. In general, shorter display frequencies provide higher accuracy for the Alternate method. The display frequency rate has little effect on the device driver modes. Refer to the CPU Monitor User's Guide for more details on the statistics gathering methods used in CPU Monitor. Changing the statistics gathering frequency is provided by the Configure Dialog. Select Configure from the Options Menu or with the Ctrl-C hot key. ═══ 9.1.5. Change display frequency ═══ Use this to change the display update frequency. You may select any value between 1 and 60 seconds. Note: When using the CPU Monitor device driver, process statistics are gathered independently of the display frequency. Different display frequency rates will influence statistics gathered by CPU Monitor only when the CPU Monitor device driver is not used. Refer to the CPU Monitor User's Guide for more details on the statistics gathering methods used in CPU Monitor. The display frequency can be saved checking the Save Configuration Info checkbox or by using the Save menu option. The display frequency can also be automatically set when CPU Monitor starts via a Command Line switch. See the User's Guide for details on using the command line switches. Changing the display frequency is provided by the Configure Dialog. Select Configure from the Options Menu or with the Ctrl-C hot key. ═══ 9.2. Disable Menu Item ═══ Use this to disable the timed display of statistics to the screen. This will also disable logging output to a file. Select the Enable menu item to restart the screen display. Disable is selected from the Options Menu or with the Ctrl-D hot key. ═══ 9.3. Enable Menu Item ═══ Use this to enable the timed display of statistics to the screen. By default, the display is normally enabled. If the Disable option has been invoked, Enable will restart the timed display. This will also restart logging output to a file. Enable is selected from the Options Menu or with the Ctrl-E hot key. ═══ Log File Help ═══ Enter a filename where the CPU Monitor data will be logged. Select Enable to enable data logging. Disable will disable data logging. Overwrite will first erase an existing file; Append will add log data to the end of an existing file. Choose OK to confirm the above selections. Cancel will abort any changes selected. Help displays this message. If the Log File becomes unavailable or if the file is unable to accommodate additional data, an error message will be displayed. In these cases, file logging will be disabled until a new log file is selected. Note: Data may be logged to at most one file at a time. File logging can also be automatically enabled when CPU Monitor starts via a Command Line switch. See the User's Guide for details on using the command line switches. ═══ Kill Process Help ═══ Select the process that is to be terminated. Press Kill to terminate or press Cancel to abort any selections. If the Confirm Kill Request Checkbox is checked, a confirmation request will be issued before the process is killed. De-selecting the checkbox eliminates confirmations. To efficiently kill a series of processes, double click on each Process Name instead of pressing the Return key or the Kill pushbutton. Note that the list of processes is not automatically updated. Press Refresh to update the list. CPU Monitor retains process information for a period of time dependent on the current display frequency. Furthermore, be aware that a process may not terminate immediately. Some processes take measures to avoid being terminated. The kill request will be sent out correctly, but the process may still ignore it and continue to execute. ═══ Configure Display Help ═══ Set configuration parameters for the CPU Monitor display and statistics gathering. The following parameters can be set: Display Frequency Enter the number of seconds to wait between screen updates. You may select any value between 1 and 60 seconds. Note: The CPU Monitor device driver carries out statistics collecting independently of the display frequency. Nevertheless, the display frequency influences statistics gathering when CPU Monitor itself collects the statistics without a device driver. Refer to the CPU Monitor User's Guide for more details on the statistics gathering methods used in CPU Monitor. The display frequency can also be automatically set when CPU Monitor starts via a Command Line switch. See the User's Guide for details on using the command line switches. Statistics Gathering Frequency Enter the desired statistics gathering frequency mode. The Slow, Normal, and Fast options specify that statistical data be collected by the CPU Monitor device driver at a rate of 5, 10, and 32 times per second. The Alternate method specifies that CPU Monitor itself gather all statistical information. Number Base Select either decimal (base 10) or hexadecimal (base 16) number displays. Hexadecimal values may be useful to correlate CPU Monitor displays with other OS/2 system and programming information. The default is to display all numbers as decimal integers. Note: CPU percentages are always displayed in decimal integers regardless of the specified number base. Font Size Use this to select a different size fixed-width font for the CPU Monitor display. Both font choices are bold, fixed-width, and Courier or System Monospaced, depending on the fonts installed in your system. Generally the large font will be ten points, and the small font will be eight points in height. Colors Scheme Use this to choose between a number of different predefined color schemes. Save Configuration Info Check this to permanently save all configuration information when OK is pressed. The saved configuration information will be used the next time CPU Monitor is started. Press OK to accept the entered values. If Save Configuration Info is Checked, all configuration information will be saved. Press Escape or Cancel to abort any selections. Press Default to choose the factory default settings. The Save menu option can also be used to save the current configuration settings. ═══ Exit Help ═══ Press OK to terminate CPU Monitor. If the Save Current Setting checkbox is checked the following settings are saved: o Screen colors; o Display window dimensions; o Display number base; o display font; o Custom display fields and ordering; o Display frequency rate; o Statistics gathering frequency; o Currently selected display. Press Cancel to abort any selections and return to CPU Monitor processing. ═══ Start Process Help ═══ Enter the information necessary to simulate starting a program from the command line. The Working Directory and Parameters entries are optional. If the program executes in the background, check Background Task. Press Start or double click on an entry in the Files list to start the desired program. Only OS/2 executable programs can be started. Press Reset to quickly erase any information already entered. Press Cancel to abort any selections. Note: CPU Monitor can start processes automatically via a Command Line switch. See the User's Guide for details on using the command line switches. ═══ Change Priority Help ═══ Select the process whose priority is to be changed. The current Priority Class and Level are displayed for each selected thread. Since OS/2 restricts changing thread priorities in other processes, only those threads belonging to most Presentation Manager programs can have their priority changed. To change a thread's priority, press Set after selecting new Priority Class and Priority Level values. Press Cancel to abort any selections. Refresh updates the display for any processes that have recently terminated or started. Be aware that CPU Monitor retains process information for a period of time dependent on the current display frequency. ═══ Display Fields Help ═══ Select the data fields to display. Each of the fields is described below: o Process ID is the unique identifier for every process. o Process Name is the name assigned to the current process. More than one program with the same name or more than one instance of the same program may be simultaneously loaded for execution; use the Process ID to distinguish between these programs. o The process priority value has two parts. The first digit is the priority class. OS/2 gives a task with a higher priority class preference over a lower priority class. The priority classes from lowest to highest are: - 1: Idle Priority - 2-7: Regular and Foreground Priority - 8: Time Critical Priority Each priority class has 32 levels, 0 the lowest priority and 31 the highest (0 to 1F in hexadecimal). Be aware that OS/2 normally adjusts each task's priority within a class dynamically, to insure that every task gets some CPU time. Note: The Foreground (or fixed high) priority class actually has a higher priority than the Regular class. This allows the current screen group to respond more favorably to an interactive user. o Threads displays all the threads for each process. o Idle Time displays the estimated percentage of the time that the CPU is idle. o State displays the execution state of a process or thread. It may be Ready if the process or thread is ready or currently executing. If the thread is not Ready, it may be Blocked or Frozen. o Session ID is the session or screen group identifier. o Percent CPU Time displays an estimate of how much CPU time each thread or process is using. o Parent Process ID displays the identifier for each thread or process. o Use Defaults selects the default display values. The numeric fields are displayed in the current number base, either decimal or hexadecimal. The number base is changed from the Configure dialog. Press OK to enable the display with the new field selections. Press Cancel to abort any selections. Press Default to choose the factory default settings. ═══ Display Order Help ═══ Select how the display is to be ordered. The display is arranged in either ascending or descending order based on one of the following: o Process Name; o Process ID; o Session ID; o Parent's Process ID; o CPU Time used; o Process Priority. Press OK to select the new display order. Press Cancel to abort any selections. ═══ Select Process Help ═══ Select specific processes and threads to include in the display. Only those items selected will appear in the display. Press OK to include the selected processes in the display. Press Cancel to abort any new selections. Note: To display data for all processes, make sure that no entries in the Process List are selected. Press Reset to quickly clear any selected entries. ═══ Suspend Thread Help ═══ Select the process and thread to be suspended or resumed. If the state for a thread is displayed as 'Suspend', then that thread is currently suspended. 'Normal' indicates that the thread is not suspended. Since OS/2 places restrictions on suspending threads in other processes, only those threads belonging to most Presentation Manager programs can be suspended or resume executing. Press Refresh to update the display for any processes that have recently terminated or started. Be aware that CPU Monitor retains process information for a period of time dependent on the current display frequency. Press Set to change the execution state for the selected thread. Press Cancel to return to the CPU Monitor display. Warning: It may NOT be possible to resume a process whose sole 'Message Loop' thread has been suspended. In many programs, the first thread (Thread 1) has the responsibility for dispatching all messages for that process in a message loop. This thread is referred to as the message loop thread. Therefore, if you choose to suspend Thread 1 in any process, a warning will be displayed. Suspended threads may sometimes be identified by a "Frozen" entry in CPU Monitor's "State" column. "State" is included in the customized display via the Fields menu item. ═══ Installation Help ═══ CPU Monitor must initially be installed in your system. After starting CPU Monitor from the OS/2 Command Line, select YES when prompted to continue with the installation. After installation is complete, the computer should then be restarted to enable all CPU Monitor functions. Note that part of the installation process requires that the CPU Monitor help file and dynamic link library be copied to their OS/2 directories. In addition, the CPU Monitor device driver must be referenced from the CONFIG.SYS file. Refer to the CPU Monitor User's Guide for more information. To permanently unload CPU Monitor from your system, select the UnInstall menu item from the File menu. The Un-Installation process will be complete after the computer has been restarted. CPU Monitor may be reinstalled later at your convenience. ═══ Installation Error Help ═══ CPU Monitor was unable to complete the installation process. If you press OK to continue, not all CPU Monitor functions will be available. ═══ Installation Error Help ═══ CPU Monitor was unable to backup the system OS2.INI file. Since CPU Monitor makes changes to OS2.INI, it first makes a backup copy called OS2INI.BA. This backup file is put in the same directory where OS2.INI is found. At this point, you may still continue installing CPU Monitor. However, in the very unlikely event that the OS2.INI file becomes corrupt, CPU Monitor will not have created the OS2INI.BA backup. Select YES to continue with the installation process. Select NO to abort the installation. ═══ Initialization Error Help ═══ CPU Monitor has not been completely installed. As a result, some CPU Monitor functions will not operate correctly. To install CPU Monitor, restart the program and press 'Yes' when asked to install. Then restart OS/2 to complete the installation process. Note: Part of the installation process includes copying the CPU Monitor dynamic link library, CPUMON.DLL, to one of the directories specified by the CONFIG.SYS LIBPATH command. Refer to the CPU Monitor User's Guide for information on installing CPU Monitor. ═══ Initialization Error Help ═══ CPU Monitor has not been completely installed. As a result, some CPU Monitor functions will not operate correctly. To install CPU Monitor, restart the program and press `Yes' when asked to install. Then restart OS/2 to complete the installation process. Note: Part of the installation process includes referencing the CPU Monitor device driver, CPUMON.SYS, from the CONFIG.SYS file as in the following example. Example: device=C:\MONITOR\CPUMON.SYS Refer to the CPU Monitor User's Guide for information on installing CPU Monitor. ═══ UnInstallation Help ═══ To permanently remove CPU Monitor from your system, select YES when prompted to Un-Install. After Un-Installing, CPU Monitor will be completely removed once the computer has been restarted. Note: Part of the installation process requires that the CPU Monitor device driver be referenced from the CONFIG.SYS file. This reference is not removed automatically. Refer to the CPU Monitor User's Guide for more information. CPU Monitor may be installed later at your convenience. ═══ Log File Error Help ═══ If the log file becomes unavailable or if the file is unable to accomodate additional data, an error message will be displayed. In these cases, file logging will be disabled until a new log file is selected. Note: Data may be logged to at most one file at a time. ═══ Kill Process Error Help ═══ The selected process no longer exists. Choose another process to kill or select Cancel to return to CPU Monitor. Note: The list of processes in the Kill Process dialog box is not automatically updated. Press Refresh at any time to update the display for processes that have recently started or terminated. Be aware that CPU Monitor retains process information for a period of time dependent on the current display frequency. ═══ Kill Process Confirmation Help ═══ The specified process is to be killed. Press OK to kill the process. Press CANCEL to abort. ═══ Change Priority Error Help ═══ CPU Monitor is unable to determine the priority for the selected process. This may occur if the selected process has terminated. Choose another process or press Cancel to return to CPU Monitor. Note: The list of processes in the Change Priority dialog box is not automatically updated. Press Refresh at any time to update the display for processes that have recently started or terminated. Be aware that CPU Monitor retains process information for a period of time dependent on the current display frequency. ═══ Suspend Thread Error Help ═══ CPU Monitor is unable to determine the execution state for the selected process and thread. This may occur if the selected process or thread has terminated. Choose another thread or press Cancel to return to CPU Monitor. Note: The list of processes in the Suspend Thread dialog box is not automatically updated. Press Refresh at any time to update the display for processes and threads that have recently started or terminated. Be aware that CPU Monitor retains process information for a period of time dependent on the current display frequency. ═══ Clipboard Warning Help ═══ CPU Monitor was unable to completely copy the current display to the clipboard. Data at the end of the display may have been lost. The maximum number of characters that can be copied is approximately 65,535 bytes. Retry the copy when the current display contains less information. You can reduce the quantity of information displayed by using the Fields and Select dialogs. Alternatively, you may copy a bitmap image of the current display to the clipboard by selecting the Copy Bitmap menu item. This differs from Copy Text since only the visible display will be copied. ═══ Configuration Error Help ═══ The FAST, Normal, and Slow Gather Frequencies are only available if the CPU Monitor device driver has been installed. Refer to the CPU Monitor User's Guide for information on installing CPU Monitor. ═══ Configuration Error Help ═══ At installation time, CPU Monitor tries to find an installed fixed pitch Courier font to match your screen resolution. If this is unsuccessful, it tries to find a fixed pitch System Monospaced font. This error message indicates that CPU Monitor was unable to find the desired size font to match your screen resolution. Check to be sure that OS/2 has Courier and System Monospaced fonts to match your screen resolution. ═══ 10. Command Line Switches ═══ The following command line switches are available: o /START= o /LOG= o /FREQUENCY= For /START, is the name of a file containing the program names to be started. For /LOG, is the name of the file where logging information will be written. For /FREQUENCY, is the number of seconds (1 to 60) between screen updates. Note: No spaces are allowed between the equals sign ('=') and the value in a command line switch. Spaces are required between each command line parameter. Example: MONITOR /FREQUENCY=5 /LOG=C:\mylog.log /START=C:\bastart.ba will do the following: o Sets the initial display frequency to 5 seconds; o Enables file logging to the file C:\MYLOG.LOG; o Starts the programs as specified in the file C:\START.BA. Once CPU Monitor is running, data logging may be changed by selecting the Log menu item; Additional programs may be started via the Start menu item; The display frequency may be changed via the Configure menu item. See the User's Guide for more details on using the command line switches.