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Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)


On 12/30/2010 05:32 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>  Whenever I run uptime I see the load avgs all as 0.00:
> 
> $ uptime
>  07:29:15 up 1 day, 20:22,  3 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> 
> Note that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.7 on Windows 7. Note that this is
> Windows 7 running in a VMWare VM on my Ubuntu laptop. I don't have
> Windows anymore - I only have Windows in a VM. The Ubuntu laptop running
> the VM reports busyness via uptime on the Linux side and I can see
> vmplayer taking up CPU. But it's as if no CPU usage or load is present
> in the Windows 7 guest at all.
> 
> Can somebody confirm or deny this?

Windows does not provide this information, therefore cygwin1.dll cannot
provide it in the syscalls that uptime uses to determine this information.

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Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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