[procps] Re: C-States handling - new switch?

On Feb 8, 2012, at 8:33 AM, Jaromir Capik wrote:

> Btw. one of our engineers is in contact with kernel guys
> and it's possible that this could soon change directly
> in the kernel.

A new state category perhaps?  That would be good.
(it would be even better with more screen real estate)

> If I understand that correctly, CPU frequency changes
> permanently distort the values and that also makes
> the stats unusable for monitoring systems since CPUs
> with halved frequencies show 2times higher load, right?

Not any more, since we're now based on actual elapsed tics.

Whatever tics are available, they'll be scaled to the range of 0-100%.  
Assuming, of course, a category exceeds the arbitrary (maybe future-tunable) 
10% threshold.

Jim

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