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From: wengland@stephsf.stephsf.com (Bill England)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: What does xload measure ??  (sunclock)
Message-ID: <376@stephsf.stephsf.com>
Date: 6 Oct 90 18:33:37 GMT
References: <9010050913.AA02121@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> <21008@well.sf.ca.us>
Organization: Stephen Software Systems, Inc., Tacoma WA
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In article <21008@well.sf.ca.us> Jef Poskanzer <jef@well.sf.ca.us> writes:
>In the referenced message, mouse@LIGHTNING.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU wrote:

  After reading these threads and talking to John about sunclock it
  seems that the xload 'problem' is releated to the way sunclock's 
  event loop is structured.  Apperently sunclock calls 'sleep(1)'
  before updating it's time varialbles.  This causes it to almost
  always be in the run que when xload takes its sample.
>
>xmeter was posted to comp.sources.x a week ago, v9i59.  It's a generalization
>of xload to handle any statistic that can be rstatted, including non-idle
>cpu percentage, which is what you want to measure to get a load estimate.
>Cpu percentage doesn't suffer from the syncronization/beating problems
>discussed, because it is a direct measure, not sampled.

---Xmeter---
I'm getting a make file error when I try to run Imake to create xmeter.
Probally the Imake file here is not configured correctly.  The man page 
for Imake on SCO's ODT is incomplete. Could someone please forward me 
a copy of the nroff-able Imake manual page.


Thanks,

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