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From: jef@well.sf.ca.us (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: How to make xload work right?
Message-ID: <18215@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 30 May 90 02:16:57 GMT
References: <30656@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer <jef@well.sf.ca.us>
Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal
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In the referenced message, dking@ut-emx.UUCP (David L. King) wrote:
}I'd really like to know how to make xload stop showing that irritating
}exponentially decayed output -- it's really totally inappropriate for
}a stripchart to do that.

I'm not sure what you mean by the remark about stripcharts.  The stripchart
widget doesn't know anything about the data it displays.  I would agree
that an exponential runnable-processes average is a totally inappropriate
measure of system load for a single-user workstation - is that what you
were trying to say?

One of these days I'll get around to posting an X11R4 version of the
old xcpu program.  I have an R3 version, but xload changed substantially
between R3 and R4, and I'd like to make xcpu reflect the same changes.
---
Jef

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