Load

Steve Trendel · 07-16-2001, 09:04 AM

I've found commands that show the amount of processing time
that processes have consumed, but I'm interested in knowing
what the recent average CPU load was--like looking at perfmon
on one of those other OSs. My concern is that too many jobs
may be run at the same time--causing some of them to run too
slowly.

-Steve

jharris · 07-16-2001, 09:29 AM

If you are comparing Linux to a non-Unix OS then you'll get a very unfair match. Unix system always run a lot more jobs and have a lot of stuff going on in background. When you run 'top' or 'uptime' you get three number that represent the average load of your system over three time periods (have a look at the man pages for what those periods are - I can't remember...)

cheers

Jamie..

unSpawn · 07-16-2001, 10:34 AM

Not an answer but freshmeat.net has some apps like ard the Auto Renice Daemon and also some backgroundprocess checkers, maybe thatll help.

*Freshmeat's off the air right now@@@$#!@ messed up their MySQL scripts...

Steve Trendel · 07-16-2001, 11:13 AM

Thanks! That's exactly what I needed. -S