Re: Window List Extension

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 12:57 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:

>         > You want notification if the system is behaving out of spec
>         really.
>         
>         
>         A system under heavy load is out of spec?
> 
> Out of spec of what is normal for you.  So if you're doing heavy cpu
> things then maybe 90% cpu utilization is okay, but 100% utilization of
> two of your cpus might raise your eyebrows.  What would be out of spec
> for you in your workflow? 

I think he has a point, here. I suspect trying to heuristically
differentiate between 'normal' high CPU use and 'out of spec' high CPU
use would be almost impossible. How would you go about doing it? I can't
think of an approach, even. It's something the user of the system can
figure out almost without thinking - any reasonably smart user *knows*
which of the things running on their system should be using 100% CPU for
five minutes, and which shouldn't - but I think it's extremely difficult
to figure out heuristically.

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