MOTD too conservative about showing sysinfo

[Dominic Dunlop]

Binary package hint: landscape-client

On multi-core machines, the policy of not showing system information on login if load is 1.0 or greater, as implemented by /usr/share/landscape/landscape-sysinfo.wrapper, is too conservative. The following patch suppresses the information only if the load is greater than the number of cores of the host:

--- landscape-sysinfo.wrapper-before 2010-10-25 10:05:26.000000000 +0200
+++ landscape-sysinfo.wrapper 2010-10-25 10:06:41.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-if [ $(echo "`cut -f1 -d ' ' /proc/loadavg` < 1.0" | bc) -eq 1 ]; then
+CORES=$(grep -c '^core id\b' /proc/cpuinfo)
+if [ $(echo "`cut -f1 -d ' ' /proc/loadavg` < $CORES.0" | bc) -eq 1 ]; then
     echo
     echo -n " System information as of "
     /bin/date
@@ -7,5 +8,5 @@
     /usr/bin/landscape-sysinfo
 else
     echo
- echo " System information disabled due to load higher than 1"
+ echo " System information disabled due to load higher than $CORES"
 fi

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 25 10:07:19 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: landscape-common 1.5.5.1-0ubuntu0.9.10.0 [modified: usr/share/landscape/landscape-sysinfo.wrapper]
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-22.67-generic-pae
SourcePackage: landscape-client
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-22-generic-pae i686