This might be splitting hairs, but the load average, as I understand it, is not exactly CPU utilization. Rather, it is a count of the number of runnable processes.
This suffices as a crude measure of system activity 98% of the time. But how would you query actual CPU occupancy? Something like <measured number of jiffies> / <jiffies per second> * n -- Gary Cote [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony Nugent > Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 5:38 AM > To: RedHat Development Mailing List > Subject: Re: Finding CPU Utilization % > > > On Thu Jun 05 2003 at 06:12, "girish sondur" wrote: > > > I want to find out the CPU Utilization of the Linux Machine. I > > dont want to use TOP since it is in itself CPU intensive. Please > > suggest the best way to do so? > > $ cat /proc/loadavg > > Cheers > Tony > > > _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
