Limit CPU % to 100 and make it a bit faster about synth-shell

[olmari]

Tresholding this kind of values is always things where is no correct answers.

For the latter bullet-point, calculation currently calculates exactly average for all the cores in system, like you do describe it there later.

I think instead of representing the number as actual percent-figure we could just show the load-figure, which describes things more accurately as load of 8.00 in an 8 core system would mean that demand fromCPU's are exactly 1 for each core. Load can be higher than amount of cores, it just means that demand is higher than there is capable processing power.

The graph-bar itself could still stay exactly the same, it would show roughly in percentage that what average use there is from all the cores.. So we would get best of both worlds: bar-graph showing quickly the average load on whole system and then numbers would tell the actual load... maybe combine the number with available cores (we already get that info on the code) and show it like "0.13 / 8".

Other than that it is matter of personal preferences.. for some, load of under maximum is failure (say mining).. And after all load is still an number, users needs gives it an meaning.

[andresgongora]

I liek your suggestion. We show the bar as as a percentage indicator of system load, but do not show a % next to it, rather a system load in the shape 1.3 / 8. Which is also aesthetically more in line with the RAM, SWAP, etc...

[andresgongora]

Now the CPU load monitor is configurable. However, the average is still for the last 60 seconds, instead the last 5-10 seconds. I don't know how to configure this, but I think its not as critical as displaying the value properly. Will be addressed when new branch features/cleanup_startup gets merged.