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| 2549.1 | | TALLIS::MCAFEE | Steve McAfee | Tue May 09 1989 14:47 | 19 |
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The problem is that Amy's OS doesn't keep track of all the system
resources. A task kill program is possible, but it won't necessarily
be able to free up memory, etc.
A well written Amiga program should be able to clean up after itself.
If this is the case you can then use STATUS or TASKX (PD program) to
find out the task number and BREAK to send a break to the task. The
program running in that task should then abort itself. Many (read
most) programs don't seem to support this even though it is quite
easy.
If this doesn't work I usually use TASKX or CHANGETASKPRI to lower the
task's priority so that it doesn't run. Eventually you have to reboot
to get the resources back.
sorry,
steve
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| 2549.2 | | WJG::GUINEAU | | Tue May 09 1989 15:04 | 11 |
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Look into XOPER (on WJG::AMIGA:XOPER.ARC). It's about as close as you get.
One thing that really bugs me about the Amiga Exec is the way is allows
any name for a task. Under VMS, you have a process name (like Amy's task names)
except VMS doesn't let 2 processes have the same name (not in the same group
anyway..) It would be nice if the Amiga EXEC would assure that a unique task
name gets assigned to each task.
John
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| 2549.3 | Thanks, I'll give XOPER a shot... | WAV12::HICKS | I could have had a DS3100!!!! | Wed May 10 1989 19:21 | 1 |
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| 2549.4 | And there's TInfo... | FRAMBO::BALZER | | Thu May 11 1989 06:04 | 11 |
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If XOper should turn out to large or you want to just take a quick
look at what's going on, try Tinfo (Task-Info) from my fellow brewer
and Vice-President, Heiko Rath. :-)
It's somewhere on Tape::User1:<Amiga> (Zoo???) and gives you still
more intimate information on a specific task.
But for constant monitoring, XOper is the way to go. Just don't
trust it's CPU usage information too much...
- <CB>
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| 2549.5 | Also SHOW on WJG:: | WJG::GUINEAU | | Fri May 12 1989 09:13 | 22 |
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I wrote a small utility called SHOW (I even use it all the time :-)
It will display just about every EXEC list (tasks, memory, ports,
libraries, etc)
It's hidden inside WJG::AMIGA:FIND.ARC
which also includes a little hack called (what else) FIND which
will take a starting and ending address in Amys memory (defaults to the ROM)
and will attempt to match strings of printable ASCII characters. When it finds
one, it will display them until it hits an unprintable one. It will then
append a CR so the strings print neatly on your screen.
In ROM, it finds neat things like "Dale Luck - THE Amiga Wizard" and a bunch
of other interesting stuff...
Use SHOW to look at tasks (show -t), then find trackdisk.device in the list.
Get it's address in memory from the list and use FIND to dump a few Kbytes
starting at trackdisk's address. It says something about ATARI (I forget what)
John
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