Load Meter
BRAIN performance: load display.
The frame interrupt's share of the ColdFire and each DSP core's busy time per frame, drawn in BRAIN's PERFORMANCE pane, LOAD tab. Without this module the bars stay empty and the DSP tab says so. No menu of its own.
Screen Reference
BRAIN performance: DSP display.
Status: on hardware: cursory testing on Sam's MKII (owner report, 16 Oct 2026); the window and both DSP cores' figures under the port (verify_loadmeter, verify_brain).
Module facts (developers)
The frame interrupt's share of the ColdFire, each DSP core's busy time per frame and each effect call's cost, for BRAIN's OTOP screen.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Author | sambanks |
| Category | Reference |
| Kind | hybrid |
| Test status | on hardware: cursory testing on Sam's MKII (owner report, 16 Oct 2026); the window and both DSP cores' figures under the port (verify_loadmeter, verify_brain) |
| Conflicts | STEM REC — reads MAIN before lm_scrub's place in the frame interrupt is shown to precede it |
| Included in | octabam-bus, octabam-inserts |
On GitHub: https://github.com/sambanks/octabam/blob/main/modules/load-meter/README.md