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From: scco@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Sean Colbath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Determining % of CPU in use
Message-ID: <1186@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 89 22:25:03 GMT
Reply-To: scco@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Sean Colbath)
Organization: University of Rochester
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Is there any way under Unix (more particularly, SUNOS) to determine the
percentage of CPU utilization?  ps u can tell what percent of the CPU a
particular process is using, but I was wondering if this information was
available for the processor in general (i.e. if the CPU is at 75%, the
processor is idle 25% of the time).  I know that the kernel keeps some
statistical information (avenrun, etc) but I'm interested in something a
little more normalized than the load average.

Please reply directly to me as I don't read this newsgroup normally.  I will
post a followup if I get a solution.  Thanks in advance.


Sean Colbath

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