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CLIPSTER Edit Tool User Guide
4.6 The Performance Monitor
With the performance monitor of the DVS software you can monitor
the workload of the DVS system during a real-time operation. Thus you
can verify, for example, the status of the hard disks of the storage as
well as of certain files.
After starting the DVS software and thus the Edit Tool the bin is by de-
fault activated in the tool area. As soon as you select the tab Perform
in the tool area, the area will look similar to the following figure:
Figure 4-20: The performance monitor
The performance monitor provides you with detailed information about
dropped frames (frames that the DVS system could not load or write in
time during a real-time operation). Via the table below you can get in-
formation about the location where the drop took place.
For this the performance monitor provides the following items:
chart The chart offers you a graphical interpretation of the
measured workload of the system. During a play-
out or record operation the processing workload will
be shown via bars in the chart. It is in detail ex-
plained in section “The Chart” on page 4-38.
chart
chart controls
drop table
table controls
status bar