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- Short: UNIX-like task scheduler (V1.20)
- Author: petrin@megabaud.fi (Petri Nordlund)
- Uploader: petrin@megabaud.fi (Petri Nordlund)
- Version: 1.20
- 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%.
-
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-
- The most notable changes in this release are:
-
- - Meter, a new client for registered users. Meter displays all kinds
- of system information in a small, customizable window.
-
- - System is now scanned during installation for programs in the
- ExecutivePrefs Magic Wand list and these are added to the
- preferences file automatically. Existing preferences file is
- also updated.
-
- - Some changes were made to all schedulers. I have especially spent
- a lot of time improving the Queues-scheduler. The changes I have
- made make it the best scheduler in Executive. It's a real killer
- now (maybe I should rename it to "O.J."?)
-
- - There's now a Common problems -section in the docs.
-
- - Server now defaults to using CIA-B timer on 68020+ machines so the
- CIA-A timer is left free for programs that aren't wise enough to
- use CIA-B timer if CIA-A is reserved.
-
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-
- Executive has a WWW-page which has links to several Aminet
- sites and also some nice screenshots. The page URL is:
-
- http://www.megabaud.fi/~petrin/Executive.html
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 632 269 57.4% 22-Oct-95 16:09:36 Executive_V1.20.info
- 3375 1605 52.4% 22-Oct-95 16:09:36 +.Product-Info
- 197670 197670 0.0% 22-Oct-95 16:13:20 +bin.lzx
- 58860 58860 0.0% 22-Oct-95 16:13:42 +bin020.lzx
- 11796 8329 29.3% 22-Oct-95 16:09:36 +ExPatch
- 17252 10202 40.8% 22-Oct-95 16:09:36 +tool
- 37068 21923 40.8% 22-Oct-95 16:09:36 +UnLZX
- 18847 18847 0.0% 22-Oct-95 16:13:50 +catalogs.lzx
- 53330 53330 0.0% 22-Oct-95 16:16:06 +doc.lzx
- 14999 13970 6.8% 22-Oct-95 16:15:18 +icons_ml.lzx
- 12581 11549 8.2% 22-Oct-95 16:14:52 +icons_mnl.lzx
- 8321 7292 12.3% 22-Oct-95 16:14:28 +icons_nl.lzx
- 7677 6616 13.8% 22-Oct-95 16:14:04 +icons_nnl.lzx
- 1464 488 66.6% 22-Oct-95 16:09:36 +Install.info
- 580 327 43.6% 22-Oct-95 16:09:36 +English.info
- 38509 11359 70.5% 22-Oct-95 16:09:36 +Install
- 583 334 42.7% 22-Oct-95 16:09:36 +Nederlands.info
- 582 332 42.9% 22-Oct-95 16:09:36 +PortuguΩs.info
- 578 329 43.0% 22-Oct-95 16:09:36 +Suomi.info
- 580 329 43.2% 22-Oct-95 16:09:36 +Svenska.info
- 193 140 27.4% 22-Oct-95 16:09:36 +UnInstall
- 8018 2585 67.7% 22-Oct-95 16:09:36 +UnInstall.Executive
- 9734 3974 59.1% 22-Oct-95 16:09:36 +ReadMe.Changes
- 463 223 51.8% 22-Oct-95 16:09:36 +ReadMe.Changes.info
- 2352 1066 54.6% 22-Oct-95 16:09:36 +ReadMe.first!
- 463 223 51.8% 22-Oct-95 16:09:36 +ReadMe.first!.info
- 38109 38109 0.0% 22-Oct-95 16:17:08 +Register.lzx
- 22188 21704 2.1% 22-Oct-95 16:16:26 +sysinfo.lzx
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