The Graham Utilities for OS/2 - Version 2

Task Manager - OS/2 Style

Summary

The OS/2 Task Manager is designed to display to you all running tasks and some graphs of CPU and memory usage. The information is displayed to you using a notebook pages.

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Command Line Format

Usage: TaskMgr { <Switches> }

Switches

-c: Compact Memory when TaskMgr starts.
-e: Exit TaskMgr.

Description

TaskMgr currently uses four notebook pages to display it's information. They are:

Applications

The applications page shows you the currently running applications - the same as the Window List. It also displays more details than the Window List does.

Processes

The processes page shows all processes currently running in the system. Some detailed information on these tasks is also shown.

Performance

The performance page displays the instantaneous CPU and Memory usage, as well as their histories. If you have more than one CPU and the OS/2 Warp SMP kernel the CPU spin button will not be greyed out and you will be able to select which CPU yo wish to look at.

Disk Space

The Disk Space page displays the disk space in use for all drives from C: to Z:. If you double click on any one of the bar graphs you will be shown a more detailed information dialog for that particular drive. [TaskMgr - Drive C]

This dialog shows you the specific details and history of the selected drive.

Display Speed

The View menu has the display speed settings on it. You have a choice of Slow, Medium, Fast and Custom. If you choose the Custom menu item, you are presented with the above dialog box, where you can enter the speed of the display update (the lower the number, the faster the update [and the more CPU that TaskMgr uses itself]). The speed is entered as a time delay between samples and is entered in milliseconds.

About

The About menu item shows the above 'About' dialog box.

The OS/2 Task Manager is designed to display to you all running tasks and some graphs of CPU and memory usage. The information is displayed to you using a notebook pages.

-c Compact Memory

This switch allows TaskMgr to compact memory when it initially starts. This option is particularly useful in an unattended environment.

-e Exit TaskMgr

This switch tells TaskMgr to exit once it has compacted memory. It is only valid when used in conjunction with the -c switch.

Examples

TaskMgr -c

Start TaskMgr, compact memory and leave TaskMgr running when completed.

TaskMgr -ce

Start TaskMgr, compact memory and then exit.

TaskMgr

The normal way of starting TaskMgr. TaskMgr remains running.