> Sure...everything that happens on such a system affects the CPU. I just
> don't buy the excuse "it would take a major rewrite to monitor CPU use in
> ComOS". If it's a time sharing system, just write a CPU montoring
> process, and see how much time it gets to share :) It can't be as bad as
> they make it sound. And like others have said, would you trust a BGP
> router if you could have no idea how loaded the CPU is? When the router
> starts acting up, is it bugs? is it the CPU falling over? Who knows?
Agreed.
1. It is important and needed, just not everyone sees it yet, but not
everyone has "big" applications that have indefinite CPU usage.
2. Livingston excuse department came up something really phony for this
one.
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