about Clif

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Hello there,
 I have just skimmed trough Clif and ResourceProbeImpl.java and think that 
it's quite cool. I do however have some questions about the implementation 
like:
 - You retrieve resource usage information from files like /proc/meminfo and 
/proc/stat, is this the best way (when thinking about the speed/resources 
used)? How would you do that in a windows system? Is there an Implementation 
probe for windows? 
-  You open the files whenever there is a call to UpdateSomethingUsage, is 
this necessary to open the newly updated file by the system? And by the way 
does the system update these files each tick 10 ms?  And do you think that 
your 5 secs default is generally a good time interval? (Would not the 
injector for example make a significant amount of requests in 5 secs or is it 
controllable?) 
 - Is there a paper that shows how the different modules work together? I 
think including dependencies to other projects like org.objectweb.fractal.api 
 and the GUI under org.objectweb.clif.console.gui will make the application 
hard to read. I spent more then 1 hour and have no clue of how it works 
together :- ( 
 - I need to set up my application on a cluster and test its performance and 
monitoring the resources will be a good thing. Is Clif good / stable / easy 
to do this? (I have max 25 hours to do this). Could you please advice me on 
other tools to test my application? (Are there any other tools like CLIF?, I 
have seen jMeter, but don?t think it has a resource monitor/ it only includes 
the statistics of server response/throughput as seen by end users)

Any help will be very much appreciated.
Thank you very much for your time,
Awaiting your reply!
Ismail.