RE: Finding CPU Utilization %

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

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Gary Cote
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Tony Nugent
> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 5:38 AM
> To: RedHat Development Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Finding CPU Utilization %
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> 
> 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
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>