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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] Add CPU speed detection to KPersonalizer for FBSD
From:       "Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <amadorm () usm ! edu ! ec>
Date:       2003-11-17 14:58:07
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Quoting Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg@snafu.de>:

> Not much meaningful! Sorry!
> 
> A new user switches on the PC, logs in KDM, gets KDE running and
> KPersonalizer 
> shows up.

That's why you use the 15min loadavg.  By the time KPersonalizer opens, the load
might be a little off because KDE is starting up, and services are finishing,
but at least the loadavg is a much more precise measure of how the machine feels
than just the megahertz count alone, or the RAM available alone.  Compounding
MHz and MB RAM, in effect, will give you values that are somewhat correlated to
the loadavg.

Plus you don't have to do calculations, you already have the loadavg computed
for you.

> 
> That is not really a typical load average and especially not a 15mn long
> one.
> 
> Have a nice day!
> 
> On Saturday 15 November 2003 02:51, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
> > Perhaps the useful mesaurement would be using the loadavg from the last 15
> > minutes?
> >
> > Just grasping at straws.  But usually loadavg does have relation to how
> the
> > machine "feels".
> >
> > Quoting Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>:
> > > On Thursday 13 November 2003 20:21, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > > > Attached patch is a first stab at adding CPU-speed detection to
> > > > KPersonalizer for FBSD. For the vast majority of FBSD systems out
> there
> > > > the speed will still be detected as 0 [which makes me wonder, why is
> > > > the CPU speed detected at all, and what is KPersonalizer doing with
> > > > it?], but in some cases (-CURRENT, ACPI enabled) the right speed is
> > > > returned.
> > > >
> > > > The patch also corrects an indentation mistake and adds a comment that
> > > > the CPU speed is expressed in MHz.
> > > >
> > > > OK to commit? Please CC me on replies.
> > >
> > > I'd prefer to remove that whole Mhz handling completly. The MHzs of a
> > > computer
> > > is so useless as measurement how much icon resizing and stuff is wanted.
> > > Especially
> > > since much of it is quite pointless if you only have 32MB of RAM :(
> > >
> > > Greetings, Stephan
> > >
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    suerte,

    Rudd-O

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