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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
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Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.
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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!

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