On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 12:09:00PM -0400, Robert Story wrote: > 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 > > Sounds reasonable. Might I suggest using /proc/loadavg as an optimization on > Linux based single cpu systems? As long as someone else is already doing the > work, we might as well take advantage of it..
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