uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Thu Dec 30 19:23:00 GMT 2010


On 12/30/2010 7:32 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Whenever I run uptime I see the load avgs all as 0.00:
>
> $ uptime
> 07:29:15 up 1 day, 20:22, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>
> Note that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.7 on Windows 7. Note that this is Windows 7
> running in a VMWare VM on my Ubuntu laptop. I don't have Windows anymore - I
> only have Windows in a VM. The Ubuntu laptop running the VM reports busyness via
> uptime on the Linux side and I can see vmplayer taking up CPU. But it's as if no
> CPU usage or load is present in the Windows 7 guest at all.
>
> Can somebody confirm or deny this?

'uptime' shows 0 load for me too outside of a VM.

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Larry

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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
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