> On Dec 8, 2014, at 12:43 AM, Christopher Rust <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I can't comment on how cpu idle time is calculated or if the cpus() array is
> consistently ordered but I can point out that setTimeout is not expected to
> be perfectly accurate.
>
> <…>
> Still, 17 seconds seems like a lot. Are you saying that's 17 seconds real
> time as well?
>
It’s not 17 seconds in real time… it’s two seconds :-). Hence my puzzlement. We
can add some detail to bring this out:
setInterval
(
function()
{
console.log("Time is", Date.now(),
"and idle time is", os.cpus()[0].times.idle);
},
2000
);
And the output is:
Time is 1418051000768 and idle time is 39311772900
Time is 1418051002770 and idle time is 39311790100
Time is 1418051004772 and idle time is 39311808000
Time is 1418051006774 and idle time is 39311824600
…
The between intervals is fairly consistent and about 2000ms as expected. The
idle times for the corresponding intervals are approx 17s, 18s, 16.5s! (if
laziness is a virtue of a programmer, I think I might have stumbled upon the
Holy Grail: the ability to squeeze more idle time than are available on the
clock!).
Closer inspection reveals what might be the issue: if you take the idle time
reported to be not in ms, but 100*ms (where 100 = GNU/Linux clock ticks per
sec), then it starts to seem right. Throwing away the *100, the idle times
become:
393117729
393117901
393118080
393118246
Or approx 2s, 1s, 2s each.
What does continue to puzzle me is that if the ‘os’ module is adding on a extra
*100 to the time, then how is it reporting data at this level of granularity
i.e., there should be a lot more trailing zeroes, since the OS does not report
this data at ms granularity.
—ravi
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