Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/12/31/13:23:04
On 12/31/2010 11:44 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 31 December 2010 13:33, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>> On 12/31/2010 01:11 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
>>>> IMHO it's 100% better than just outputting 0's. Putting out 0's gives you
>>>> no
>>>> info at all!
>>> Bollocks. You'd be the first to complain that those stupid Cygwin devs
>>> don't even understand what an average is.
>> Hold on there Tonto! I said nothing of the sort.
> Nor did I say that you did. See the "You'd be"? That's short for "You
> would be". And no, it wasn't meant entirely seriously.
Doesn't matter. You are consciously attempting to paint me in a bad
light and it's totally unjustified. You're making assumptions and
attributing them to me nonetheless instead of just asking for
clarification. I don't appreciate it.
>> If you're gonna put words
>> in my mouth then please refrain for claiming that I insulted somebody else
>> in the manner you did above. I didn't say that the Cygwin devs didn't
>> understand what a loadavg is and I hardly called them stupid. You should be
>> ashamed of yourself for making such a leap of misjudgment and then pinning
>> it on me!
> Blah, blah, blah. Let's say I was extrapolating from this: "Well that
> sucks. Surely Windows has some means of reporting how busy the system
> is. uptime should use that.". Like the rest of your posts in this
> thread, that's dripping with the assumption that you know best and
> that the Cygwin devs haven't looked into this properly, while failing
> to provide a single new insight.
The only assumption that I know best is one that you've dreamed up in
your own mind. I've never said it, nor implied it and now I'm telling
you - I never thought it! I think it's something that should be done and
would improve the usefulness of Cygwin. I do not imply the devs are
ignorant - just busy perhaps. Any other negative things are things
you're making up in your own mind. If you wish to be honest and truthful
about something I said or something you think I said you need only ask!
>
>>> The 0% tells you pretty
>>> clearly that that information is not available.
>> I beg to differ. 0% is indistinguishable from "the machine was not busy at
>> all". IOW it *could* say "that information was not available" and it *could*
>> as easily say "the load avg was actually 0%". You can't tell so it's hardly
>> "pretty clearly".
> Well, if you take the 0% at face value even though you know the
> machine is doing something, you're being rather silly.
There is absolutely no reason to assume that 0% doesn't mean 0%. Yeah
sure you can do some measurements and the like and pretty quickly come
to the realization that 0% doesn't really mean 0%? But really, why are
your fighting me on this? Why not simply make it better or at least make
it something that nobody could mistake for simply a machine is not busy?
> But I agree, I think it would be better not to provide /proc/loadavg
> (which is where uptime gets the data from) in the first place if it's
> not going to provide actual load averages, although I expect there was
> some reason to provide a dummy implementation.
Great then let's proceed to discuss this like gentlemen and leave the
snide comments and un-serious quips out of it. It's really quite
unnecessary.
>
>>>> I beg to differ. I don't see how having 0 values is better than some
>>>> approximation of load.
> Because people would waste their time proving that it doesn't do what
> it's supposed to and then email about it.
Let them do that. Include in the man page "Under Windows, loadavg is a
crude approximation" and you're done.
> Also, load information is in
> fact already available from /proc/stat. Here's how to interpret it:
> http://www.linuxhowtos.org/System/procstat.htm. That's what 'top' uses
> as well.
Great, well then couldn't uptime (and top, etc.) use that?
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