Sylvander wrote:Boxpup-431 has a small [green on black] graphical display window down at bottom right.
Is it xload or what?
No. I presume Boxpup uses openbox - is that right?
I think Openbox does have a built-in CPU meter.
Most Puppies use the JWM window manager, and usually have xload, which is a separate program that we swallow into the JWM tray. I think openbox isn't even capable of swallowing programs...
By the way I used NOP 4.13
Oh, OK. I believe NOP uses the XFCE "desktop environment" instead of JWM and rox and a bunch of other standard puppy programs.
I think XFCE does have a CPU meter... so you are reading it correctly.
but on start-up the program it immediately rush to 100% and afterwards, it back to normal.
Like I said, I would have thought that was good - it means that the program is starting as quickly as possible so I think this tells us that there
isn't a bottleneck reading the program from the disk. Or do you think your hard drive is so slow and your CPU so fast that your computer shouldn't be able to read the program from disk fast enough to keep up with the CPU?
Also be aware that:
1. depending on how you are running Puppy, the main .sfs file with all the built-in programs may be loaded into ram, so when you start a program it is being read from ram, not from the hard disk (which is slower) like in most operating systems.
2. if you have just noticed that it looks different to another CPU meter when you start programs in another operating system, I think this may simply be because it is displaying the CPU usage averaged over a shorter time duration, in which case it will appear to change much more quickly.
I think it is a bottleneck.
Maybe you need to explain what you mean in more detail...
I transfer a 300Mb file, it raise up to 100% too.
Yes, that doesn't sound great. How fast is your CPU? And roughly how long does it take to transfer 300MB? I have a feeling that the CPU needs to do more work with modern on-board network cards, but I wouldn't have expected 100% CPU usage.