Using another monitor to view large blueprints.

Question

I would like to add another monitor to my iMac so I can view my blueprints on screen.  I am clueless how to install the monitor, or even if I need to have specific specs for the monitor/TV that I need to purchase to avoid issues.  Can the iMac allow me to do this ?

Answer 1

Monitoring CPU usage can be done using the 'top' command
/usr/bin/top -l 1200 -ocpu -F -s 5 >top.log
This will collect the same 100 minutes of 'top' output, only the sample rate is once every 5 seconds. Each 'top' sample in the top.log file will put the highest CPU using app at the top of the sample. So you could 'grep' for the application you wish to look at
grep -i lightroom top.log
and then look at all the 5 second samples and see if your app was a heavy CPU user, or if it was slacking off
Looking at the top man page "man top", you might be able to take advantage of the "-c a" if you start top when going into heavy compute mode and stopping it just after heavy compute mode and then look at the last few entries.
You might also be able to use:
/usr/bin/top >tmp.log -l 1200 -c a -ocpu -F -R -s 5
-p '^bbbbbbbbbb $cccccc $jjjjjjjjj $oooooooooo $pppppppppp'
-P 'Command CPU RSIZE PageIns PageOuts'
Where the "-c a" causes the values to be accumlative (so each entry adds to the previous counts, and the CPU is the average over the entire run. So you start this command just before the heavy work segment, and stop it right afterwards. Then look at the last few entries as that should be your cumulative summary.
Message was edited by: BobHarris