Mateusz Marzantowicz <mmarzantow...@osdf.com.pl> writes: > On 19.07.2013 12:32, lee wrote: >> Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 05:13:12PM +0200, lee wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> does anyone know what conky displays as CPU usage for a process? The >>>> values are different in conky and top, for example, top might show 11.6 >>>> for a process while conky says 3.01. >> >> BTW, conky also ignores an update interval specified for mail checking. >> I specified an hour and it updates every 10 seconds. Maybe I'll write >> my own monitor so I do know what it does, or stay with xosview ... >> >> > > Answer for all your questions is in conky's source code. In file > src/linux.cc, there is a function called get_cpu_count which grabs data > from /proc/stat . After this function you'll find several other > functions that open /proc/stat .
Did you find an explanation for why it displays different numbers than top does or why it ignores the update interval for checking mail? I thought it probably uses the same data sources for this information and didn't really want to look at the source code. -- Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
