Short: UNIX-like process scheduler (V2.10) Author: petrin@megabaud.fi (Petri Nordlund) Uploader: petrin megabaud fi (Petri Nordlund) Type: util/misc Version: 2.10 Replaces: util/misc/Executive.lha Requires: AmigaOS 2.04 Architecture: m68k-amigaos Executive brings real multitasking to AmigaOS. Executive is a UNIX-like process scheduler for Amiga. It also has plenty of other features previously available only in larger operating systems. Executive improves the responsiveness of your Amiga. One CPU intensive application no longer causes the whole system to crawl. You can start many CPU intensive applications and the system still feels as if it would be totally idle. The Executive package also includes many useful client programs that let you control tasks and monitor what is 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. Lets say you are printing a document from a word processor. You can't do much else while the document is being printed. This isn't multitasking. With Executive you could also do some heavy rendering and C-compiling in the background at the same time. You could surf the web with your favorite browser without even noticing all these programs running in the background. 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. Some important features of the server: - precise (1/1000 seconds) CPU usage timing - six different scheduling algorithms - load averages - process identifiers - process group identifiers - accounting - focus - task with active window gets more CPU time - MultiUser support 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 Dashboard The mother of all meters 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 shell and Workbench programs Top Display information about top CPU tasks Uptime Display system uptime and load averages Executive is fully compatible with all Amiga computers running AmigaOS release 2.04 or newer. Executive is the highest rated item of shareware CU Amiga magazine has ever awarded at 98%. Executive V2.00 got 97% from the same magazine, and it was ranked as "the best shareware utility ever." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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