> I love the whole concept of CPU usage reporting. It's a perfect
> example of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. How much CPU was being
> used before the CPU usage monitor was run? Who knows? It changes the
> condition of the CPU by observing the CPU's condition.
Sure...everything that happens on such a system affects the CPU. I just
don't buy the excuse "it would take a major rewrite to monitor CPU use in
ComOS". If it's a time sharing system, just write a CPU montoring
process, and see how much time it gets to share :) It can't be as bad as
they make it sound. And like others have said, would you trust a BGP
router if you could have no idea how loaded the CPU is? When the router
starts acting up, is it bugs? is it the CPU falling over? Who knows?
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