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- .name
- Executive
- .type
- OS Utility
- .short
- A UNIX-like task scheduler/manager.
- .description
- 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%.
- .version
- 1.30
- .date
- 1995.11.22
- .author
- Petri Nordlund
- .restrictions
- The freely redistributable version doesn't lack any crucial features
- so it can be used without registering. Registered users get
- process accounting, ALoad3D and Meter clients and 5 additional scheduling
- algorithms.
- .requirements
- Requires AmigaDos 2.04 or newer, ~1MB disk
- .distribution
- Shareware
- .price
- $15(USD), 10 GBP, 70 FIM, 20 DEM, 100 NOK, 120 SEK, 500 BEF, 70 FRF, 25 NLG, 100 DKK
- .address
- Vanhamaantie 4
- 28800 PORI
- FINLAND
- .email
- petrin@megabaud.fi
- .exectype
- 68000, 68020
- .installsize
- 1MB
- .described-by
- Petri Nordlund <petrin@megabaud.fi>
-