[ale] cpu usage in percentage

[Jim Kinney]

 iostat | grep -A1 avg-cpu

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
          19.24    0.45   10.26    0.40    0.00   69.65


On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:12 PM, David Hamm <ale at spinnerdog.com> wrote:
> Looks like mpstat will work.
>
> Thanks.
> On Thursday 05 February 2009 20:26:05 Jim Kinney wrote:
>> load average does not translate to % cpu utilization unless it's less
>> than 1. top shows a breakdown of % cpu used by each process over a
>> timeframe. But conceptually, load average does not directly equate to
>> an available amount of cpu resources.
>>
>> Tell your users to think of load average as the number of people in
>> line at the bank or grocery store checkout.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:38 PM, David Hamm <ale at spinnerdog.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Does anyone have an easy way to figure out CPU utilization on a 0 to 100%
>> > scale.  Load average from ps is too abstract for my users.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
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