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Interface CPU

All Superinterfaces:

Describable, HardwareComponent

public interface CPU

extends HardwareComponent

Represents a processing unit in the Machine.

Author:

Calle Wilund, Marcus Hirt

Method Summary

long	getClockFrequency() Returns the clock frequency of this processor in Hz.
java.lang.String	getDescription() Returns a description of the CPU.
double	getLoad() Returns the CPU load on this CPU.

Method Detail

getLoad

public double getLoad()
               throws NotAvailableException

Returns the CPU load on this CPU. This is a value between 0.0, which means no load, to 1.0 which denotes a fully saturated CPU.

Returns:

see above.

Throws:

NotAvailableException - if this functionality isn't available in this JVM.

getClockFrequency

public long getClockFrequency()
                       throws NotAvailableException

Returns the clock frequency of this processor in Hz.

Returns:

the clock frequency in Hz.

Throws:

NotAvailableException - if this functionality isn't available in this JVM.

getDescription

public java.lang.String getDescription()

Returns a description of the CPU. For example Intel P3 1400Mhz.

Specified by:

getDescription in interface Describable

Returns:

see above.

See Also:

Describable.getDescription()