Re: Calculating processor usage (M68K)

test wrote:

> Could someone tell me know how to calculate MIPS being used by an
> existing application, on an existing processor?
>
> I'm not looking for raw processor power available (so benchmark pgms
> won't do). We have an application (real-time, infinte loop) ...

Do you mean a polling loop that is looking for activitity or are
the activitites interrupt driven?

If you are trying to decide whether you can utilize a faster
processor, are there other things you need to measure, such as
latency?

> ... running on
> the processor, and want to know how busy the processor is on an
> average. It would suffice even if we could only determine the
> worst-case utilization. The application runs on pSOS on M68K.
>
> Thanks,
> Test