[ cc: trimmed back to just the list ] bernie wrote: > El Tue, 15-06-2010 a las 19:13 -0400, Martin Abente escribió: > > On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:31:08 -0400, Bernie Innocenti <ber...@codewiz.org> > > wrote: > > > So, to keep the code and the UI simple enough, I'd propose starting with > > > a very basic chip icon, whose palette would display two gauges > > > representing an approximation of free memory and free cpu, computed > > > from /proc/meminfo and /proc/loadavg, like free(1) and uptime(1) do. > > > > > > Any further refinement could come later, if someone finds the time and > > > motivation. If we come up with extravagant solutions now, chances are > > > good that nobody will do it and we won't have anything in time for the > > > next release. > > > > +1 > > > > Lets start with something simple, functional and do-able. That actually > > helps kids in this life time :) > > > > Would be great to have a catchy icon, that can represent the system's > > "tiredness" (load), any ideas? > > The UNIX "load" is often hard to understand for users because it > combines cpu and iowait.
but that metric was created for _exactly_ that reason -- it really does represent how "tired" :-) your system is. unless you're thinking of a full status panel, with cpu, i/o, memory, network, etc -- i.e., something only a geek could love -- then you could do far worse than simply iconifying the load average. paul > > Perhaps an instant cpu busy percentage would be more obvious to most > users, although it's somewhat harder to compute on Linux systems: > > -----cut------ > /proc/stat > > kernel/system statistics. Varies with architecture. Common entries > include: > cpu 3357 0 4313 1362393 > > The amount of time, measured in units of USER_HZ (1/100ths of a second > on most architectures), that the system spent in user mode, user mode > with low priority (nice), system mode, and the idle task, respectively. > The last value should be USER_HZ times the second entry in the uptime > pseudo-file. > -----cut------ > > -- > // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ > \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel =--------------------- paul fox, p...@laptop.org
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