Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2011-01-02 Thread Andy Koppe
On 1 January 2011 16:51, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 01/01/2011 09:08 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >>> Why not simply make it better or at least make it something >>> that nobody could mistake for simply a machine is not busy? >> >> Because it's not that simple. Removing /proc/loadavg would be nice, >> but

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2011-01-01 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 01/01/2011 09:08 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 31 December 2010 18:22, Andrew DeFaria wrote: I do not imply the devs are ignorant - just busy perhaps. Good. If you'd also contemplated the possibility that the current state was deliberately decided on as the least bad solution, While I did eventu

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2011-01-01 Thread Andy Koppe
On 31 December 2010 18:22, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I do not imply the devs are ignorant - just busy perhaps. Good. If you'd also contemplated the possibility that the current state was deliberately decided on as the least bad solution, you might have written your complaint in more temperate langua

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2010-12-31 Thread Andrew DeFaria
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 de

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2010-12-31 Thread Andy Koppe
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 understa

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2010-12-31 Thread Andrew DeFaria
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. I

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2010-12-31 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Le 31/12/2010 13:16, Cyrille Lefevre a écrit : > is that may help ? the gg keys where : windows avenrun :-) > > http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/X11apps/X11apps-13/xload/xload-X11R7.0-1.0.1/get_load.c well, humm, xload doesn't even launch under vista w/o any error ! strace and ldd attache

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2010-12-31 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Le 30/12/2010 16:44, Eric Blake a écrit : > On 12/30/2010 05:32 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> Whenever I run uptime I see the load avgs all as 0.00: >> >> $ uptime >> 07:29:15 up 1 day, 20:22, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 >> >> Note that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.7 on Windows 7. Note th

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2010-12-31 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Andy Koppe (Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:11:22 +) > On 31 December 2010 02:49, Andrew DeFaria 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 wha

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2010-12-31 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > IMHO it's 100% better than just outputting 0's. Putting out 0's gives you no > info at all! I disagree. No information is 100% better than bogus/wrong information. Implementing proper load information is only a Small Matter of Programmin

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2010-12-30 Thread Andy Koppe
On 31 December 2010 02:49, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >  On 12/30/2010 08:41 PM, David Antliff wrote: >> The "load average" is a bit more complicated than just how busy the >> system is - it's related to the number of processes waiting for the >> CPU, with some time-weighted averaging and a few other he

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2010-12-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 12/30/2010 08:41 PM, David Antliff wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:27, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 12/30/2010 06:05 PM, David Antliff wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 08:23, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Well that sucks. Surely Windows has some means of reporting how busy the system is. uptime shou

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2010-12-30 Thread David Antliff
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:27, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >  On 12/30/2010 06:05 PM, David Antliff wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 08:23, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>> >>> Well that sucks. Surely Windows has some means of reporting how busy the >>> system is. uptime should use that. >> >> But then they wo

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2010-12-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 12/30/2010 06:05 PM, David Antliff wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 08:23, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Well that sucks. Surely Windows has some means of reporting how busy the system is. uptime should use that. But then they wouldn't be actual load averages where most people/programs expected to se

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2010-12-30 Thread David Antliff
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 08:23, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Well that sucks. Surely Windows has some means of reporting how busy the > system is. uptime should use that. But then they wouldn't be actual load averages where most people/programs expected to see load averages. -- David. -- Problem repor

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2010-12-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 12/30/2010 10:44 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 12/30/2010 05:32 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Whenever I run uptime I see the load avgs all as 0.00: $ uptime 07:29:15 up 1 day, 20:22, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Note that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.7 on Windows 7. Note that this is W

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2010-12-30 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/30/2010 05:32 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Whenever I run uptime I see the load avgs all as 0.00: > > $ uptime > 07:29:15 up 1 day, 20:22, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > Note that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.7 on Windows 7. Note that this is > Windows 7 running in a VMWare VM on

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2010-12-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/30/2010 7:32 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Whenever I run uptime I see the load avgs all as 0.00: $ uptime 07:29:15 up 1 day, 20:22, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Note that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.7 on Windows 7. Note that this is Windows 7 running in a VMWare VM on my Ubuntu laptop.

uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2010-12-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Whenever I run uptime I see the load avgs all as 0.00: $ uptime 07:29:15 up 1 day, 20:22, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Note that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.7 on Windows 7. Note that this is Windows 7 running in a VMWare VM on my Ubuntu laptop. I don't have Windows anymore - I only h