System Sentry Overview Screen
About this task
The Overview screen provides a general view of the computer and CIMPLICITY's performance.
1 | System's current % CPU use. |
2 | System's current memory usage. |
3 | System memory swapping*. |
4 | Time is days:hours:minutes:seconds since the system booted up. |
5 | Total points in the current CIMPLICITY project. |
6 | Total point updates/sec. |
7 | Messages in and out of CIMPLICITY. |
guide: Guidelines for reading the Overview screen include:
- Review the CPU Overview for:
- Current CPU Utilization
- Trend of CPU usage.
The steady state CPU Usage should be below 60% for a non-redundant project and below 45% for a redundant project.
Do not let your system become fully utilized. A lower utilization enables CIMPLICITY to respond in a timely manner to events in your process. This is particularly critical when using redundancy.
When your computer is over-utilized, you have two choices: