[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] limit weird numbers in resource display

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Sat Nov 15 23:34:00 CET 2003


Hi,

> This patch limits the resource use percentages in the status output so
> they never go above 100%.
> 
> On my PC, the resource use percentages in MPlayer's status output are
> often way above 100%, they can jump up and down pretty unpredictably to
> numbers like 24398.1% or something. I don't know the cause of this, but
> I'm guessing that it's because gettimeofday() sometimes goes backwards
> on my hardware (IBM ThinkPad A21e).
> 
> This problem makes the status line grow wider than 80 characters,
> causing my terminal emulator to spend massive resources scrolling, as
> well as simply being ugly.

refused, bad fix!
the resource % numbers can be >100% for normal users, when the system is too
slow to do the job. limiting it to 100% is bad.
btw, the meaning of those numbers isn't 'resource use' but 'resource needs'!

if you have problem with gettime implementatio, go and add workaround in
osdep/timer-lx.c or report as bug to the kernel maintainers, it's a bug.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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