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 Hi All.
I just tested on my OS/2 Client Warp 4.5 (Warp 4.0 + FP13) this fine release of Rick Papo, System Resources (a.k.a. MemSize). It is a very useful tool for OS/2 control at every time: you need only a click of the mouse on a object in your desktop in order to activate a complete and efficient technical report about the performance and about the resources of your system.

  What is MemSize

System Resources v4.00 (Rick Papo, 08 July 2000, Free).  A simple
utility for monitoring system activity and resources.  Source included.
English, French, Spanish, German, Catalan, Danish, Chinese (BIG5),
Norwegian, Italian, Japanese, Hungarian, Finnish and Brazilian Portuguese
language files.

New in this release

memsz400.zip (8 July 2000, 875K) MemSize 4.00 Beta

Changes since 4 July 2000: (1) Updated German translation, courtesy of
Klaus Staedtler.  (2) Corrected gigabyte display logic.  (3) Warp 4.0
with Fixpack 13 does not properly support system performance monitoring
when WarpCenter is not enabled. In this case, we now fall back on the
old idle-thread technique for CPU load monitoring.  Changes since 10
April 2000: (1) Converted CPU Load logic to use full 64-bit arithmetic.

Photo above shows System Resources files inside @Macarlo's FileStar/2

The file is memsz400.zip (854KB) and you can download it directly from Rick Papo's web site, at the MemSize Beta Page:

http://people.mw.mediaone.net/rpapo/beta.html

This program provides a digital clock (with date), the elapsed time since your system's last restart, the amount of free virtual memory, the current swap-file size, the maximum amount the swap-file can still grow, the current CPU load (%), the number of active tasks and the amount of disk space free on each of your hard disks.  Each figure is updated once per second, or at whatever interval from one to thirty seconds that you wish. Removable disk drives (including CDs) are not supported at this time.

Photo above shows System Resources being installed on @Macarlo's Warp 4.5

Installation

Run the installation file ENGLISH.CMD.  It will ask you where you want the program stored and whether you want it to be placed in the startup folder. The job will create a program object and place it either on the desktop or in the system startup folder.  This object will have all its attributes set up correctly for running the program.

Features

This program displays several items related to system resources, and updates the display once per second, providing it is given CPU time to do so.  The items displayed are:

 Date/Time - The current date and time, in the format called for in the default country information for your system, as specified in the 'COUNTRY=' entry of your CONFIG.SYS file.

 Elapsed Time - The elapsed time since the computer was last restarted.

 Messages Waiting - The number of messages waiting to be downloaded.

 Physical Memory Free - The amount of system memory available, according to the DosMemAvail function.

 Note:    This function is part of the old 16-bit system, and only reports physical memory below 16Mb, and was also altered just before OS/2 2.0 was released to never report less than 512K.

 Note:    If you have the IBM system analysis program Theseus/2 installed on your system, this number will be completely accurate, though it will only update itself once every ten seconds at most.

 Virtual Memory Free - The amount of virtual memory available, according to the
 DosQuerySysInfo function. This is the amount of free physical memory, plus the amount of free space within the current swapping file, plus the amount of space by which the swapping file could yet grow, less the amount of free space reserved on the swapping drive.

 Swap File Size - The current size of the system virtual memory swap file,
 SWAPPER.DAT. To locate the file, the file CONFIG.SYS is scanned for its SWAPPATH entry. That entry provides the full name of the swap-file's directory and indicates the minimum free space that must be left on the swap-file's disk drive.

 Available Swap Space - The amount of free disk space on the logical disk drive where the system swap file resides, less the mininum free space.  This is how much more the swap file could expand, if necessary.

 Unused Swap Space - The amount of free space within the currently allocated system swap file. When this drops to zero, the system swap file must be increased in size,  normally by one megabyte at a time.

 Note:    If you have the IBM system analysis program Theseus/2 installed on your system,  this number will be completely accurate, though it will only update itself once every ten  seconds at most.

 Spool File Size - The amount of disk space consumed by spool files.

 CPU Load (%) - The approximate percentage of the CPU's available horsepower that's  being used at the moment.  It is averaged over the previous second.

 Note:    Under versions of OS/2 before release 4.0, this function and PULSE do not get  along with each other. Why?

 Note:    Under versions of OS/2 before release 4.0, if you have the driver HRTIMER.SYS  installed, this number will be more accurate. Why?

 Average Load (%) - The approximate percentage of the CPU's available power that has  been used in the recent past.  The number of seconds to be averaged may be configured by  the user (see the Configuration dialog).

 Battery - The current battery capacity remaining, or its status (Charging, AC) is displayed.

 Active Task Count - The number of entries in the system switch list, which is the list  displayed when you press CTRL+ESC.

 Note:    Not all entries in the system switch list are displayed in the Window List.  Some  are marked for non-display.

 Process Count - The number of processes currently loaded on the system.

 Thread Count - The number of threads currently running on the system.  There is at least one thread for each process.

 Total Free Disk Space - The amount of free space on all the local non-removable disks  combined.

 Drive X Free - The amount of free space on drive X.

 The help facility is active, as you've already seen, and those program commands that exist may be accessed via the window's system menu.  The following commands are available:

       Reset Defaults
       Hide Controls
       Configure...
       Reset Load Meter
       Reset Average Load
       Reset Drives
       Launch E-Mail Reader
       Copy
       About
       Close
  
  In addition to those features already described, this program accepts commands from the OS/2 2.0 Font and Color Palette programs, and is a DDE server for all the currently displayed items.  The DDE application name is MEMSIZE, and the item names are the same as the default display item names (like Physical Memory Free).   

CONTACT AUTHOR

Rick Papo
rpapo@mediaone.net
http://people.mw.mediaone.net/rpapo/index.html

@Macarlo, Inc.
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