Re: [lcd4linux] PPP plugin - high load

[Michael R. <re...@eu...>]

Hi Zsolt,

> I tried to switch to a new lcd4linux. I checked out source from cvs at
> 30/12/2004. I cleaned the sample config file to include used lines only.
> I display only a few things like system date/time, uptime, network
> traffic. I would like to display ppp traffic but when I insert the ppp
> widget to the default layout, system load grows up quickly.
> I didn't change anything in the sample config around ppp widget.
> What should I do to eliminate this high load?

You are right, the PPP plugin is far from optimal regarding CPU usage. I 
don't remember exactly, but I think the system call is quite cpu-intensive.

But the PPP plugin should be considered obsolete. Use the netdev-plugin 
instead, and specify 'ppp' as a device.

Example: netdev('ppp0', 'Rx_bytes', 500)

This plugin parses /proc/net/dev, and is quite fast!

HTH, Michael

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