On Sat Mar 08, 2008 at 15:21:48 -0500, Brian Szymanski wrote: > I started cleaning this up to use a block, not string eval, and pull the > check out of getload so it needn't be called as often... But really, if > your load is "too" high, do you want to be exec'ing uptime on every > call? I sure wouldn't. I say just require Sys::CpuLoad, warn and return > DECLINED if it's unavailable.
Good idea. Personally I'm always using the Sys::Cpuload module now, so I'll bow out of further discussion. (will update the code on my site/page to reflect the current module shortly.) Having said that though executing "uptime" on each incoming connection might increase resource usage at a time when the system is already loaded - but I'm certain that doing that will be a lot less resource intensive than running clamav, spambayes, and all the other tests that are typically conducted... Steve --
