Review Request 120406: ksysguardd: Avoid including IO-wait in CPU load.

[Thomas Lübking]

> On Okt. 5, 2014, 10:29 vorm., Milian Wolff wrote:
> > Hmm... there is no way to see the wait time anywhere then, right? I don't see a way to add individual columns for that. Maybe that should be re-thought for frameworks. I.e. keep the CPU% like now but add more columns for the individual cpu/wait times?
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> Søren Holm wrote:
>     That's right. But fact is that IO-wait is not time actually used. It's just a clasification of the idle cpu time.

Notice that it is NOT included in the idle time, though.
I don't know the code in question, but assume it needs to be added to the idletime somewhere?


- Thomas


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On Sept. 28, 2014, 3:07 nachm., Søren Holm wrote:
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> (Updated Sept. 28, 2014, 3:07 nachm.)
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> Review request for kde-workspace.
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> Repository: kde-workspace
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> Description
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> IO-wait is included in the cpu usage. This is wrong since IO-wait is a part of the idle time. This goes for both total combines CPU-usage and the per CPU usage.
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> Diffs
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>   ksysguard/ksysguardd/Linux/stat.c 534a465 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120406/diff/
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> Testing
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> Fx. running a read from a slow USB-media like this will always end up showing 25% load on my system (I have 4 cores)
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> dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null bs=1M 
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> This end up being around 0% with my patch.
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> Thanks,
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> Søren Holm
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