Feature Request: Graph/Widget Changes

[baggar11]

I love the dashboard widgets, but I find myself not seeing much meaningful data. Especially the network and cpu graphs. Updating once every second produces a crazy looking graph that doesn't give a lot of insight into the machine.

example: http://puddlehunters.net/rockstor-cpu.png

I'd like to propose 3 changes to the graph widgets.

1. Let's normalize the CPU and Networking graphs so that they poll every 5 seconds with options to display for the hour, day, week and month. I'm not really even sure knowing what individual cores are doing. I'd be fine with overall usage from all cores combined. I'd love to see something that looks more like this --> http://docs.intergral.com/download/attachments/27656287/cpuGraph.png (I just pulled that from a google search)
2. In regards to the network graph, I'd like to see something along the lines of 1 with a cleaner graph but also takes into account the link speed with percentage of utilization. An example of a 1 gig link transferring at 700mb would give a graph result of 70% instead of mbps. Let's get rid of the dynamically changing graph speeds when utilization is high or low.
3. I'd love to see the shares usage widget give a little more subtle hints at deduped data. An example would be a nice blue indication of actual utilization, then a smallish blue/white bar indicating how much space would have been used without deduping the data. With 80gb of total data, you would see(hypothetically) a blue bar of 70gb of space usage with another 10gb blue/white bar of data that was deduped. Hope that makes sense.

[schakrava]

Thanks @baggar11, very useful feedback. The widget information gathering on the server side is being overhauled by @gkadillak in #763 which takes care of some of your concerns. But it'd still leave room for improvement and we'll look back to your feedback when we make them!