On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:48:34 +0100 Dave wrote: DS> Probably to support the implementation of the hrProcessorLoad object. DS> This is defined as reporting the load over the last minute, so needs to DS> sample the underlying statistics sufficiently frequently to be able to DS> calculate this load reasonably accurately. DS> Polling once every 60s would give more-or-less meaningless results, while DS> polling every second would be ridiculous. I chose every 5s as a compromise DS> between the two - sufficiently frequent to be fairly accurate, but not so DS> frequent as to put an undue load on the agent. DS> DS> But this could easily be adjusted if the load was found to be too great. DS> See line 9 of hardware/cpu/cpu.c
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