Re: [GNUnet-developers] Re: Round 1

[Tzvetan Todorov Horozov]

Hi,

I am the one to blame for the cpuUsage() function so here is some info on
it. It opens the file /proc/stat and reads the first line that stores
the current cpu usage statistics.
The numbers in that line indicate the number of
instructions that the cpu executed.
 (I remember that I had some troubles
figuring out what those numbers were but the web is probably the best
source of info and that is where I got the answer)
 So at every call
the function gets the new current time and number of instructions and
calculates the usage by considering the old values which are stored
in the  lastcputime and last_cpu_results[] variables.

You must allow some time for the values to adjust that is why the
function should not be called more often than a second (5 sec is probably
the best).

The other functions from statusCalls.c use the same technique.

I hope this helps,
Tzvetan

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Blake Matheny wrote:

> Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Willis?
> >
> > Fine with me, go ahead. And congratulations on the BSD ports. Should we list
> > OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD or do you want to exclude any of these until you
> > could do some more testing? [You can of course update the webpage yourself 
> > if
> > you want (doc/WWW/index.html; doc/gnu.org/index.html).
> I just imported my local tree, which compiled and ran fine on both FreeBSD and
> OpenBSD. The server, and text tools seemed to be ok, and the changes made to
> src/utils/statuscalls.c seem to be working fine, although I'm a bit confused
on
> the cpuUsage() function, so if Tzvetan or Christian could shed some light on
> it, that would be great. The networkUsage() function is a little slower then
on
> Linux, as we're using a pipe but not slow enough that I can notice it. I also
> added getopt to the utils lib, as most platforms (other than Linux), do not
> have getopt_long. This has been tested to compile and run on FreeBSD 4.5,
> OpenBSD 3.0, and Linux (kernel 2.4.18). If people have time and could test it
> out on any BSD box they have sitting around, I'd appreciate it. If gnunet
> compiles and runs on OpenBSD, it's a safe bet that it will also do so on 
> NetBSD
> so I didn't bother testing. Let me know if you run into any problems. Thanks.
> -Blake
>
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