CPU Usage 0.4

2007-03-27 00:35:52 -08:00

Those of you with multiprocessor Macs may have been eagerly awaiting this, and now it’s here. CPU Usage version 0.4 makes the meter work correctly for multiple CPUs. (Obviously, actually having a multiprocessor Mac helped me test it. I went through 25 alphas back when I was on the Cube; thanks go out to my three testers for banging on those.)

The other big thing in the 0.4 release is that you can now have your CPU usage meter in the Dock tile. You can have the floater or Dock tile or both. I prefer having a floater up the right side of my screen, but if you’d rather have it in the Dock, now you have it.

Here's a screenshot of my floater in CPU Usage 0.4.

6 Responses to “CPU Usage 0.4”

  1. Jamie Kirkpatrick Says:

    Roll on .5. Sticky windows!!! Sticky windows!!! Sticky windows!!! (any clue who suggested that feature ;) )

  2. Joshua Lock Says:

    Peter,

    Looks great as always. Unfortunately the disk image fails to mount (unrecognized) on my iBook.

  3. Peter Hosey Says:

    Joshua: What version of OS X? And what’s the length in bytes of the file?

  4. Joshua Lock Says:

    Peter,

    I’m using 10.4.9 PPC with Webkit Nightly (Safari) as my browser. For some reason when the file was downloaded a .bz suffix was appended causing my archiving software to decompress the file into some unmountable junk.
    Removing the .bz suffix and mounting the .dmg everything worked fine.

    Thanks for a great application!

  5. Peter Hosey Says:

    For some reason when the file was downloaded a .bz suffix was appended causing my archiving software to decompress the file into some unmountable junk.

    Removing the .bz suffix and mounting the .dmg everything worked fine.

    Ah, yes. I had .dmg bound to application/octet-stream, which prompts Safari to do content inspection to determine the type (apparently the existing filename extension isn’t good enough for it). It finds that the UDIF file is bzip2-compressed (file(1) returns the same thing), so it adds the .bz2 extension. (I also notice that it uses a 100k block size. I should see about changing it to 900k and see how much of a difference that makes.)

    I’ve changed it to application/x-apple-diskimage per this unofficial page, which makes it work properly.

    Thanks for a great application!

    You’re welcome. ☺

  6. Peter Hosey Says:

    I should see about changing it to 900k and see how much of a difference that makes.

    Well, damn. Doesn’t look like there is such a control. *adds to his massive list of bugs to file*

    I’d love to be proven wrong on that.

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