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From: michael@stb.info.com (Michael Gersten)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Determining system load
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Date: 8 Apr 91 03:28:23 GMT
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How do you determine the system load in unix? (System 5, R 1 or 2, not
sure which).

In particular, I want to get figures for percentage of time the CPU is
busy (defined as any process other than 0 running), or equivalently,
percentge of idle time (process 0 is running). This is more useful to
me than just # of running processes (which is at best an approximation
and pretty bad for jobs that fork).

		Michael
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		Michael
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