tommy, yes.

What time of the day is the board typically the busiest?

What I'd like to do (or someone else can if they want) is watch the Unix 'top' command and note the times when the CPU usage gets pegged at 100% (It actually happens a fair amount). Then see how many posts a minute the board's getting at those times. (Of course the test board should not be active during these times.)

Or is there some way of logging when, say, the CPU is at 100% for 30 seconds straight or something? Or just log the CPU usage % for half an hour?

Then at some point in the future when the real board is quiet (but not for a few days at least) we can see how many posts a minute on the test board it takes to peg the CPU.

tommyrot -- The Unix command 'vmstat' will give you status information (including CPU usage), one line every 5 seconds by default. 'man vmstat' for more details. It'll do what you want.

Stuttering 'Post message' button. My fault; nothing to see here.

Oh goody!

The cool thing about Unix is, if you thing that there should be a certain utility, usually there is.

System activity is already being logged (although maybe not with the degree of granuality you're looking for) via the "sar" command.

Um--

Really small question.

At Home I use Opera on OS9

At Work I use safari on OSX

At work the font in the posting box is the same size as the font on the rest of the page and is verdana

At home the font in the posting box is miniscule and Courier. I am thinking this has more to do with my settings than the boards, but is there anything I can do to make the at home posting situation easier? Right now I view the posting box at 150% and then I can see what I post.

At home the font in the posting box is miniscule and Courier.

Huh. Yesterday I cut and pasted a few lines from a post into an email and it kept coming up that way and resisting all attempts to change it. I finally had to paste into Word, strip the formatting, reset the font and text size, and then repaste into Outlook. Wherever that Courier came from, it wasn't letting go easily.

I finally had to paste into Word, strip the formatting, reset the font and text size, and then repaste into Outlook.

It's a lot easier to past into Notepad. Notepad is text only, so anything you past there automatically gets all formatting removed. So just paste in to Notepad, and then copy the stuff you pasted into Notepad, then past that into Outlook, or whatever.

You could also create a new email as text only, and past into that.

Yeah, I just happened to have Word open already so it was as easy to do it that way. But it's not a problem I've encountered before.

(As a test, I just copied your post into a blank email, and it automatically used my default font/size/color as usual.)