Github user tillrohrmann commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/553#discussion_r29662751 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/runtime/taskmanager/TaskManager.scala --- @@ -1894,6 +1895,52 @@ object TaskManager { override def getValue: Double = ManagementFactory.getOperatingSystemMXBean().getSystemLoadAverage() }) + + // Preprocessing steps for registering cpuLoad + // fetch the method to get process CPU load + val getCPULoadMethod: Method = getMethodToFetchCPULoad() --- End diff -- Why not making `getCPULoadMethod` an `Option[Method]`? That way one avoids vicious `null` values.
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