Short: UNIX-like task scheduler (V1.30) Author: petrin@megabaud.fi (Petri Nordlund) Uploader: petrin@megabaud.fi (Petri Nordlund) Version: 1.30 Type: util/misc Requires: AmigaDos 2.04 Replaces: util/misc/Executive.lha Executive is a UNIX-like task scheduler for Amiga. It also has plenty of other features previously available only in larger operating systems. Executive improves the responsiveness of your Amiga. No longer running a CPU intensive program causes the whole machine to slow down. You can start many CPU intensive programs and the machine still feels as fast as before. Executive also includes many useful client programs which let you control tasks and monitor what's going on in your system. The core of Executive is a scheduler that recalculates task priorities based on system load average and task's recent CPU usage. The scheduler will give high priority to interactive tasks and low priority to CPU intensive tasks. Executive is similar to Job Manager or Spy System, but it has more features than these two together, for example: - highly accurate (1/1000 seconds) CPU usage timing - 6 different scheduling algorithms - load averages - process identifiers - process group identifiers - accounting - focus - task with active window gets more CPU time - support for MultiUser Executive consists of a server and clients. The server is run in the background and it takes care of scheduling, CPU usage calculations and many other things. The client programs are: Acct Accounting daemon ALoad Display load average or CPU usage ALoad3D Display load averages in 3D Commander General task manager Ctp Extended ChangeTaskPri Kill Extended Break Lastcomm List last commands executed Meter Display system information Nice Run programs with lower scheduling priority Ps Process status displayer Pstree Display child-parent relationships Renice Renice a task Sa Display accounting statistics Stat Display some misc. information Timer Time CLI and Workbench programs Top Display information about top CPU tasks Uptime Display system uptime and load averages Executive doesn't use any illegal programming, it is fully compatible with all Amiga computers running AmigaDos release 2.04 or newer. Executive has been carefully designed to work with all kinds of configurations and care has been taken not to break any programming rules. It's not possible to give a full description of all Executive features here, so try it out. You don't want to use your Amiga without it. Executive is the highest rated item of shareware CU Amiga magazine has ever awarded at 98%. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The most notable changes in this release are: - Preliminary MUI V3 support - A couple of very important bug fixes - The Meter-client can now draw graphs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive has a WWW-page which has links to several Aminet sites and also some nice screenshots. The URL is: http://www.megabaud.fi/~petrin/Executive.html ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 632 276 56.3% 22-Nov-95 21:19:06 Executive_V1.30.info 3375 1613 52.2% 22-Nov-95 21:19:08 +.Product-Info 208290 208290 0.0% 22-Nov-95 21:23:04 +bin.lzx 63186 63186 0.0% 22-Nov-95 21:23:28 +bin020.lzx 28926 28926 0.0% 22-Nov-95 21:23:44 +catalogs.lzx 56382 56382 0.0% 22-Nov-95 21:26:08 +doc.lzx 10866 10866 0.0% 22-Nov-95 21:27:36 +Extra.lzx 15956 14950 6.3% 22-Nov-95 21:25:18 +icons_ml.lzx 12980 11924 8.1% 22-Nov-95 21:24:52 +icons_mnl.lzx 8500 7435 12.5% 22-Nov-95 21:24:30 +icons_nl.lzx 7886 6820 13.5% 22-Nov-95 21:24:04 +icons_nnl.lzx 1464 496 66.1% 22-Nov-95 21:19:06 +Install.info 11796 8329 29.3% 22-Nov-95 21:19:06 +ExPatch 17748 10487 40.9% 22-Nov-95 21:19:06 +Tool 37068 21923 40.8% 22-Nov-95 21:19:06 +UnLZX 580 327 43.6% 22-Nov-95 21:19:06 +Deutsch.info 580 326 43.7% 22-Nov-95 21:19:06 +English.info 581 332 42.8% 22-Nov-95 21:19:06 +Français.info 54471 16384 69.9% 22-Nov-95 21:19:06 +Install 583 331 43.2% 22-Nov-95 21:19:06 +Nederlands.info 579 328 43.3% 22-Nov-95 21:19:06 +Polski.info 582 336 42.2% 22-Nov-95 21:19:06 +Português.info 578 329 43.0% 22-Nov-95 21:19:06 +Suomi.info 580 330 43.1% 22-Nov-95 21:19:06 +Svenska.info 193 140 27.4% 22-Nov-95 21:19:06 +UnInstall 10873 3654 66.3% 22-Nov-95 21:19:06 +UnInstall.Executive 4590 2148 53.2% 22-Nov-95 21:19:08 +ReadMe.Changes 463 223 51.8% 22-Nov-95 21:19:08 +ReadMe.Changes.info 2643 1174 55.5% 22-Nov-95 21:19:08 +ReadMe.First! 463 223 51.8% 22-Nov-95 21:19:08 +ReadMe.First!.info 38109 38109 0.0% 22-Nov-95 21:27:12 +Register.lzx 22011 21495 2.3% 22-Nov-95 21:26:30 +SysInfo.lzx -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 623514 538092 13.7% 23-Nov-95 11:58:20 32 files