Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!uwvax!tank!shamash!com50!bungia!orbit!pnet51!pj From: pj@pnet51.cts.com (Paul Jacoby) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Backgrounder and what it does Message-ID: <870@orbit.UUCP> Date: 17 Aug 89 01:05:25 GMT Sender: root@orbit.UUCP Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN. Lines: 20 Here I am running a nifty little application called "PerfMonitor" which gives a dynamically updated bar chart of how much CPU each application is using under MultiFinder. Kinda neat to see that ZTerm can be getting 95% useage out of the CPU and not slowing down my Tetris playing a bit :-) The question comes up: Why do I see "Backgrounder" popping up every now and then? I can't say that I have found the exact circumstances under which it appears, but it shows 0% CPU when it is there. It also seldom stays for longer than 1 second. What could he be doing? On an unrelated note, has anyone seen parts 9 & 10 of the Fortune II cdev that came over binaries? I'd really like to get these last two parts if you have them. Thanks folks! .-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | UUCP: {rosevax, crash, orator}!orbit!pnet51!pj | Working with idiots keeps | | ARPA: crash!orbit!pnet51!pj@nosc.mil | my life interesting... | | INET: pj@pnet51.cts.com | | `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'