Checking CPU Utilization - Take2

[Jason Martin]

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What I did was 'iostat 4 2'| tail -1 in order to get a short-term 
snapshot.

- -Jason Martin

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Mark Reis wrote:

> I've been experimenting with iostat and I just realized that it has one
> major drawback. When you run iostat once under solaris and linux, it only
> reports the cpu % average for the entire time the system has been powered
> up. The same goes for vmstat.
> 
> Any other suggestions of a utility that will run once then return the cpu
> status and quit?
> 
> -Mark
> 
> Here is an example of how load is not helpful for my problem. The dnetc
> client is using all of the cpu cycles and as you can see the load is very
> low.
> 
> last pid:   684;  load averages:  1.09,  1.03,  0.89              10:37:48
> 39 processes:  37 sleeping, 1 running, 1 on cpu
> CPU states:  0.0% idle, 99.2% user,  0.8% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap
> Memory: 512M real, 271M free, 66M swap in use, 2345M swap free
> 
>    PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME    CPU COMMAND
>    472 root       2   0   19 2416K 1880K run     27:53 97.18% dnetc
> 
> 
> 
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