![]() ![]() After much searching, I finally, and with some reluctance, gave up, assuming a good load meter had just never been created for the classic Mac OS. I did come across cpu-view, at, but it did not seem to work very well, and struck me as unreliable. I could not find anything that that measured and displayed CPU usage satisfactorily. However, when I started working with vintage Macs, and Mac OS in general, I hit a brick wall in this regard. In between those first days on Windows 3.1 and today’s Mac OS X, I have always found a graphical load meter of one form or another for every computer and every operating system that I have used. For Windows 3.1, I found the wonderfully compact and efficient CPUUSE.EXE (a screen shot appears below), which provided a simple 0-100 number representing the degree of occupancy of the CPU.įast forwarding to today and the world of Mac OS X, I don’t think I could operate a Mac without Raging Menace’s fabulous MenuMeters ( ), which provides information not just on CPU load and internet rates, but also on disk I/O throughput and RAM usage as well. For similar reasons, I have always wanted to know what the Transmit and Receive rates were on my internet connection.īy and large, over the years I have been able to find SOMETHING that accomplished this for each successive generation of computers I have used. A computer that is cranking hard when you have not asked it to do anything is a computer that is misbehaving, either because something has erroneously run amok, or because a virus or malware (or something else of a suspicious nature) is utilizing your CPU’s cycles. Ever since I have owned a computer – think 1994 and DOS/Windows 3.1 – I have wanted to know what the activity load on my computer’s CPU was.
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