[lug] keystroke statistics

[Atkinson, Chip]

You can ssh/telnet into your box from another machine and do the following:
watch -n 1 "cat /proc/interrupts"
Then watch the output as you slowly press each key.  That's what I did
anyway.

Chip

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Ruskell [mailto:truskell at Mines.EDU]
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 10:46 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] keystroke statistics
> 
> 
> Well, gee, I feel just a little stupid, you'd think I'd be 
> awake by 10:30 :).
> It's obviously not binary, because a digit can't have a value 
> greater than
> one.   Which begs the question, what qualifies as a keyboard 
> interrupt?  It is
> clearly more than just a keystroke, given my simple experiment.
> 
> Todd
> 
> Todd Ruskell wrote:
> 
> > Is that a binary number?  Empirically, it looks like it 
> must be.  For
> > example, if I simply do an "up-arrow" and "return" to 
> repeat the previous
> > command, the value goes from
> >
> > ******19
> >
> > to
> >
> > ******29
> >
> > which is consistent with a binary, so you'd have to make 
> sure and work in
> > the proper base.
> >
> > Todd
> >
> > "Riggs, Robert" wrote:
> >
> > > I'd go for the ridiculously simple... "grep keyboard 
> /proc/interrupts" at
> > > the start and end of the day and subtract.
> > >
> >
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