SystemLoad - 1.0

I just got my laptop back with a new motherboard. It had been flakey --- slowing down/ freezing/ going to sleep/other weirdness.

System load (coupled with a temperature monitoring software) was able to show a thermal failure in my system that was causing the problems ---- by loading the machine in a controlled manner.

It did not break anything --- just showed that it was already broken --- no arguing with the techies---no time wasted chasing software problems/new user creation/"clean" installs/ reformats/ etc.

I'd call it a vital one trick pony for your utility arsenal.

Point of entertaining info -- my laptop does sing/chirp. But you have to have good ears in a very quiet room with the machine cool (fans not running) to hear it. That particular feature was to prove a specific loud intermittent problem with a run of G5 machines.

Oh, yea --- the new version looks just like the older version, with a bit better doc set.

I've never had this famed "chirping" processor problem, but when I run SystemLoad, i get it. Now I know why people complain so much about it. When I set the load to anything below about 85% it chirps. Above that I get nothing. Now this is with processor performance set to automatic and nap enabled. In this configuration, the scale thing does nothing. However, when i change the processor performance to high, the scale thing is really freaky; it actually makes an eerie sounding, though quiet, scale from the power supply. I just can't imagine what this guy was thinking when he did this. I can't decide whether this is genius or absolute stupidity. Either way, bravo!