Re: how to calculate the system idle time

From: snoopyzwe (snoopyzwe@sina.com)
Date: Mon Jul 21 2003 - 16:55:08 EST


thanks for you advice
one foolish question
what "top" means?
could you tell me more about how to watch the system?
thank you very much
I am a newbie

>On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, snoopyzwe wrote:
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>>I want to implement a module, whose main task is to check the system
>>idle time(no keyboard and mouse input) and suspend the whole system(when
>>the idle time is long enough). But there comes the problem, how to
>>calculate the system idle time. How can I get the time user has no
>>operation.
>>thanks
>>snoopyzwe
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>The the source-code of `top` and review it. Make a user-mode
>daemon to watch the system...
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>Cheers,
>Dick Johnson
>Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
> Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
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