Hi Michael,

you are right from a formal sight.
But testing the patch shows a reduction of system load in my system ( 
~50% ).
So the impact is not neglectable.
Because we should not copy functions, as stated, we must review these 
Perl modules. This will be an ongoing process. I fear, we will find some 
copys scattered in various files.
One thing I noticed while reading the various sources, is the relation 
of general-functions.pl and network-functions.pl. general-functions.pl 
includes the latter ( everytime ) and contains also network related 
functions. Maybe this is a start point for brushing up.

Regards,
Bernhard


Am 22.10.2021 um 12:07 schrieb Michael Tremer:
> Hello Arne,
> 
> I do not think I am happy with this patch because it duplicates code.
> 
> Whenever we change or fix anything in any of those copied functions, we *will* forget the copy in speed.cgi.
> 
> What is the reason we cannot load general-funcions.pl in speed.cgi?
> 
> Loading a slightly larger Perl file like general-functions.pl cannot impact the performance of the interpreter. If it does, the way should be to fix any slow parts in it.
> 
> -Michael
> 
>> On 22 Oct 2021, at 09:05, Arne Fitzenreiter <arne_f(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>
>> include general-functions.pl load and initialize many subfunctions that are not
>> needed by speed.cgi which was executed very ofthen.
>> So this reduce the system load significant if webif was open in browser
>> and ajax-speed display enabled.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arne Fitzenreiter <arne_f(a)ipfire.org>
>> ---
>> config/cfgroot/general-functions.pl |  2 ++
>> html/cgi-bin/speed.cgi              | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>> 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/config/cfgroot/general-functions.pl b/config/cfgroot/general-functions.pl
>> index f72d6588c..c10a04faa 100644
>> --- a/config/cfgroot/general-functions.pl
>> +++ b/config/cfgroot/general-functions.pl
>> @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ sub system_background($) {
>> }
>>
>> # Returns the output of a shell command
>> +# if you change this also check speed.cgi that include a local copy for systemload reasons
>> sub system_output($) {
>> 	my @command = @_;
>> 	my $pid;
>> @@ -1227,6 +1228,7 @@ sub firewall_reload() {
>> }
>>
>> # Function which will return the used interface for the red network zone (red0, ppp0, etc).
>> +# if you change this also check speed.cgi that include a local copy for systemload reasons
>> sub get_red_interface() {
>>
>> 	open(IFACE, "${General::swroot}/red/iface") or die "Could not open /var/ipfire/red/iface";
>> diff --git a/html/cgi-bin/speed.cgi b/html/cgi-bin/speed.cgi
>> index b550fda52..651c3c0b3 100644
>> --- a/html/cgi-bin/speed.cgi
>> +++ b/html/cgi-bin/speed.cgi
>> @@ -19,7 +19,47 @@
>> #                                                                             #
>> ###############################################################################
>>
>> -require '/var/ipfire/general-functions.pl';
>> +###############################################################################
>> +# functions copied from general-functions.pl for speed improvement because    #
>> +# loading and initializing the whole general-functions.pl every second create #
>> +# high system load                                                            #
>> +###########################################OA##################################
>> +#
>> +# Returns the output of a shell command
>> +sub General__system_output($) {
>> +    my @command = @_;
>> +    my $pid;
>> +    my @output = ();
>> +
>> +    unless ($pid = open(OUTPUT, "-|")) {
>> +            open(STDERR, ">&STDOUT");
>> +            exec { ${command[0]} } @command;
>> +            die "Could not execute @command: $!";
>> +    }
>> +
>> +    waitpid($pid, 0);
>> +
>> +    while (<OUTPUT>) {
>> +            push(@output, $_);
>> +    }
>> +
>> +    close(OUTPUT);
>> +    return @output;
>> +}
>> +#
>> +# Function which will return the used interface for the red network zone (red0, ppp0, etc).
>> +sub General__get_red_interface() {
>> +
>> +     open(IFACE, "/var/ipfire/red/iface") or die "Could not open /var/ipfire/red/iface";
>> +
>> +     my $interface = <IFACE>;
>> +     close(IFACE);
>> +     chomp $interface;
>> +
>> +     return $interface;
>> +}
>> +#
>> +###############################################################################
>>
>> my $data_last = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
>> my $rxb_last = 0;
>> @@ -38,8 +78,8 @@ foreach $field (@fields) {
>> 	}
>> }
>>
>> -my $interface = &General::get_red_interface();
>> -my @data_now = &General::system_output("ip", "-s", "link", "show", "$interface");
>> +my $interface = &General__get_red_interface();
>> +my @data_now = &General__system_output("ip", "-s", "link", "show", "$interface");
>>
>> my $lastline;
>> my $rxb_now = 0;
>> -- 
>> 2.25.1
>>
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