Process CPU Usage View

Function:

• To display the CPU usage for each process.

Description:

• A horizontal bar graph depicting the CPU usage for each process as a percentage of the total available CPU resource.

• The UNIX operating system scheduler attempts to distribute a fair proportion of the CPU resource to programs while biasing the allocation in favor of interactive programs. This has the beneficial effect of reducing the impact that CPU-bound programs have on system performance as compared to I/O bound programs.

• A program that continually consumes over 50% of the CPU resource may indicate a poorly written application. Performance will improve if the program can be rescheduled.

• The CPU Alert will automatically detect rogue programs that consume too much CPU resource. The CPU Action Program can be configured to warn the users of known rogue programs, such as an unwanted game, to stop running the program and, as a last resort, kill the process.