Mips! Moooore Mips! (monitor that!)

Thanks to the Moore Law (and the hard work of some scientists), the raw power of computers is ever increasing. Faster that any curve of economic growth.

However, the “consumption of power for business needs” is increasing just about as fast. That’s one of the downsides of the Moore Law: IT Production is always trying to cope with business needs, even in periods of economic downturn.

Thus, one of the key issues is to monitor CPU consumption. But remember: when you observe something, you tend to alter it somehow… Especially if monitoring solutions are provided by cumbersome corporations who sell the power: that’s being judge and party!