Pi-Hole CPU UI Numbers Format Change

[TetraSpectra]

Expected Behaviour:

Hi! This is my first post on the forum, so apologize if I make some mistake in formatting or something! So yesterday I updated to 6.0.6 and my CPU monitor in the dashboard usually shows something like 101% or 700% or some percentage.

Actual Behaviour:

Yesterday it changed to three numbers separated by slash (e.g. 0.21/1.22/3.71) after the update.

Is this intentional or a bug? I read the changelog and I don’t think I see changes regarding CPU stats. Other than that, everything is hunky-dory

P.S. I’m running Pi-Hole on Synology but I don’t think that causes it.

[robgill]

That's not new to v6. The only change is the slashes.

In older versions of pihole it was labeled "load" and had just the three numbers next to it.

The three figures are the load over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. It's the same figure you get if you issue the uptime command.

For a longer explanation you can check out What is Load Average in Linux? [DigitalOcean].

[TetraSpectra]

Oh so that’s what that means. I thought it’s core1 / core2 / core3 or what have ya😅. Any way to change it to load: percent? Because I swear it’s load: percent before I updated. If not, that’s okay! Just minor UI things anyway!

[Bucking_Horn]

@TetraSpectra

Because I swear it’s load: percent before I updated.

That was never the case, neither for v5 nor v6.

[rdwebdesign]

@TetraSpectra

Any way to change it to load: percent? Because I swear it’s load: percent before I updated.

v6.0 was released with the percentage, but this was a really bad way to represent the system Load, usually leading to confusion.

In v6.1 we changed it back to the default Linux format (using the 3 values), like it was in v5 and before that.

[DanSchaper]

Things get odd when you take in to account multiple cores. And really, load means more than just CPU utilization so a percentage doesn't give you an accurate representation of the system use.

[jfb]

@TetraSpectra

so that’s what that means.

Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery

This is the Linux standard format we use.

Percentages are pretty meaningless in comparison.

[TetraSpectra]

Ah okay! No worries then. I’m just confused as to what’s the numbers mean. I’ll mark this as the solution.

[TetraSpectra]

Yeah it actually makes sense now that I know what the numbet means. Thanks Dan!

(at)jfb thanks for the link!