On 2010-09-29, Hugo L?veill? <hu...@fastmail.net> wrote: > I have found it for windows and mac, but no luck under linux. Any idea?
I don't think it's semantically well-defined. What makes a system "idle"? Is the machine in my basement idle? I don't think anyone's touched the keyboard in a week, but it's spent a big chunk of that time with 100% CPU load across all eight processors, and I was running a bunch of work on it yesterday, including interactive sessions. Windows and Mac systems *typically* have a well-defined "console" on which the primary user is active... But as a counterexample, my news reader is actually running on an OS X box that's about fifty feet from me, which I connect to via ssh. I would be very curious to see whether your test for "system idle time" would realize that the machine I'm currently working on is actively in use, even though I don't think the console is even logged in... Basically, I can't help you, but I can tell you that you are quite possibly asking the wrong question. -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nos...@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
