| Summary: | Option to show combined CPU load history | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] ksysguard | Reporter: | Gregor Mi <codestruct> |
| Component: | ksysguard | Assignee: | KSysGuard Developers <ksysguard-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | beckerbela+kdebug, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 5.11.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Resulting graph with a simple endless loop program | ||
Have you tried stacking the beams on top of each other? It is similar to what you ask for. I didn't know the option before. It is similar, yes, but is missing one thing I find useful: with my infinite loop example it still shows a 100% load instead a much lower percentage since not all CPUs are loaded 100 %. Usage will go above 100% with more CPU's. Most applications will not normalize the usage to the number of cores. I think this is OK. Thanks for pointing this out. I have 4 cores, therefore I went to the graph properties > Scales and set the graph range to 0 - 400 %. I used then this command $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2925606/how-to-create-a-cpu-spike-with-a-bash-command) to generate 100 % load for one, two, three and four cores to verify. It works fine. Two usability things: 1. When I had the scale at 100 % (automatic) there it was not intuitive to see that the graph was "overflowing" when the processor was loaded more than 100 %. 2. A "Show combined CPU usage" option could either normalize to 100 % or automatically adjust the scale to the fitting percentage. ksysguard is no longer maintained, in Plasma 6 there is the Plasma system monitor for this task. If your wish is still valid for the Plasma 6 replacement, please re-open and we can move this bug to the new product, thanks! |
Created attachment 109696 [details] Resulting graph with a simple endless loop program I have 4 CPUs and in KSysGuard > System Load > CPU History the CPUs are shown separately. In some situations this causes "wild" graphs: E.g. run this python script: while True: print("Infinite Loop") and the graph looks like in the attachment. I wonder if it makes sense to have an option to show a graph with the combined CPU load. This would mean for 4 CPUs that each CPU would contribute with max. 25 % to the 100 % Y axis.