Personally, I couldn't care less what the CPU utilization is on my firewall.

But if this is such an issue for some people, why not use a similar
method that the interface usage graph is using?

Just my 2 cents...

Angus


On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 23:26:57 +0100, Manuel Kasper <mk at neon1 dot net> wrote:
> On 04.02.2005 11:21 -0500, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> 
> > Personally, I've seen just the opposite. Lots of CPU utilization
> > on the first click, and very little on subsequent clicks.
> >
> > Where is this CPU utilization info being pulled from? Can someone
> > describe the algorithm?
> 
> The CPU load is sampled at the very moment you load index.php.
> Unfortunately there's no way to get the current CPU load in figures
> that are meaningful to most users (i.e. percent) without sampling the
> CPU tick counters, waiting for a second and then sampling again.
> That's also the way top(1) does it.
> 
> Even more unfortunately though, since most browsers also try to
> reload the images and CSS when you refresh the page, on slower
> platforms you get 100% CPU the moment the CPU load is sampled.
> 
> I haven't been able to come up with a better solution for this yet.
> We could run a daemon to keep track of the CPU %, but wasting an
> entire process for this would be a bit of an overkill.
> 
> - Manuel
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