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Short: System monitor and enhancer based on a shared library. V1.15
Author: vogt@na.astro.it (Etienne Vogt)
Uploader: vogt@na.astro.it (Etienne Vogt)
Type: util/moni
Replaces: util/moni/Sysmon*
INTRODUCTION
Sysmon is a system monitoring and enhancing package based on a shared library
and Shell based support commands. It requires AmigaOS 2.04 or higher.
Installation of Richard Körber's Identify.library (util/libs/Identify.lha
on Aminet) is recommanded if you want the Sysmon monitor to be able to
identify expansion boards.
If your Amiga has a MMU (Memory Management Unit), it is also recommanded,
but not required, that you install Thomas Richter's mmu.library, available
from Aminet (util/libs/MMULib.lha).
Some of the features provided by Sysmon are :
- Precise CPU usage timing for all tasks with very low overhead.
- System message logging daemon like UNIX syslogd (useful for debugging).
- Safe System shutdown script (useful for BBS's and networked machines).
- Functions allowing to send/receive systemwide broadcast messages.
- New Alert function (the Guru is back) allowing detailed logging.
- New system functions related to tasks, including an enhanced and bug
fixed task signal exception mechanism.
- Executive compatible SysInfo.library to query tasks CPU usage (only
cumulated CPU usage is currently implemented).
Sysmon has been developped and tested on the following configurations :
- A4000T 68060 AGA, 2 Mb Chip 40 Mb Fast, OS 3.5
1 Gb SCSI HD + 9.5 Gb IDE HD
- A500 68000 ECS, 1 Mb Chip 1.5 Mb Slow 2 Mb Fast , OS 3.1
20 Mb IDE-XT + 50 Mb SCSI + 115 Mb SCSI HDs
- A4000 68040 AGA + CV64/3D (CGfx 3), 2 Mb Chip 16 Mb Fast , OS 3.5
250 Mb IDE + 1 Gb SCSI + 1Gb SCSI HDs
- A3000 68030/68882 ECS, 2 Mb Chip 16 Mb Fast , OS 3.5
100 Mb + 2 Gb + 4 Gb SCSI HDs
- A500 68040(PP&S) ECS , 1 Mb Chip 2 Mb Fast16 8 Mb Fast32 , OS 2.04
165 Mb SCSI HD
- UAE 68020/68881 (Compaq AlphaServer 1000, Tru64 UNIX), 2 Mb Chip
1.5 Mb Slow 8 Mb Fast16 16 Mb Fast32 , OS 3.5
What has not been tested at all is operation on PPC accelerator boards
(I don't have one). The library itself completely ignores the PPC at
present but there is always the possibility that some of the patches made
to exec will be incompatible with the PPC software. Note that the PowerUp
PPC kernel is already considered 'unsupported' as it is not compatible with
Thomas Richter's mmu.library (which will be used more extensively in future
versions of Sysmon). Don't blame me or Thomas about this, we're not
responsible for the lack of information about the PowerUp kernel internals.
On the other hand, any information about the behaviour of this software with
the WarpUp PPC kernel installed will be welcome.
This software is intended for experienced users. In particular, there
are no GUI tools available yet; so if you are a mouse-maniac user that
don't like typing Shell commands or editing ASCII configuration files,
I'm afraid that this software is not for you ;-) .
CHANGES
V1.15b
- SetTrapVectors crashed on the 68000 due to bad CPU check code.
V1.15
First official release of Sysmon V1, revision number not increased since
the library is the same than in 1.15 beta.
- Timer now also uses THOR's 64/32 integer division routine.
- ShowSys now displays the Workbench release number in its banner rather
then the KickStart one, this will distinguish disk only releases like
3.5 (V44) or 2.1 (V38).
- Sysmon monitor got some additional polish in the show memory command.
- Added ExcptTest.c example code to the src directory.
V1.15 beta
- The automatic ColdReboot() caching broke on some configurations. It is
now a configuration option activated with the new CACHEREBOOT keyword.
- The OLDMMURESET option now also applies to software generated resets.
This should help softkicked A3000s to reboot without wiping out the
KickStart.
- Halt REKICK will now clear the Capture and KickTag vectors in ExecBase,
wiping out resident modules.
- ShowSys and Sysmon now use a 64/32 integer division routine from Thomas
Richter to convert EClockVals to regular time. As a side effect of no
longer using floating point math, these commands also reduced in size.
- The new SetTrapVectors command allows supervisor mode CPU exceptions to
also be captured by the extended alert function. This command should be
run just before SetPatch in the Startup-Sequence.
V1.14 beta
- The library now calls ColdReboot() via a cached vector to bypass patches
that may interfere with resets. It needs to be able to reset the system
even from supervisor mode or with all tasks frozen. Note that the
mmu.library patch is still called as mmu.library will be opened before
caching the destination address of the ColdReboot() vector.
- smSendBroadcastMsg() didn't set the BMF_DOOMSDAY flag automatically.
Fixed. The timeout as also limited to 1/10th second when a reset is
pending.
- Added OLDMMURESET config option to force reinstallation of the boot MMU
config before reboot on a keyboard trapped reset. Use only on systems
that fail to reset properly otherwise as sending a KBD_RESETHANDLERDONE
command from supervisor mode is a bit dirty.
- Updated StartSM, Broadcast and AlertDump commands. AlertDump will now
translate the Guru Meditation number.
- Added the BcMTest broadcast messages test client.
- Added the Show KickTag and Show Broadcast commands to the Sysmon monitor.
V1.13 beta
First public beta release of Sysmon V1
- More functions added to the library.
- New config options, TRAPRESET, MOVEVBR, RAMLIBPATCH.
- New support commands Broadcast, AlertDump.
- Rewrote exec task signal exception handling completely.
- Added new task scheduling states TS_HIBER, TS_WAITAND.
- Rewrote exec Alert() routine, adding a reset resistant logging buffer,
reintroducing the 'Guru Meditation' message and using mmu.library
if available to properly write the alert data to the zero page.
- Added a new alert.hook resident module (V41) to also provide the new
display to deferred deadend alerts.
- Added a countdown to the shutdown script and a QUICK option for the
keyboard reset trap feature.
- Added broadcast messages.
- smHalt() now uses smFreeze() to stop other tasks instead of RemTask().
- More commands implemented in the Sysmon monitor.
- Added an Executive compatible SysInfo.library, with support only for
cumulated CPU usage at present.
- Documentation updated and converted to AmigaGuide format.