How to display cpu load in % format..

wwinay · 02-25-2013, 01:43 PM

Hello Tuxers... I have one problem that how to display cpu load in % format like 56%...
Thanking you..

Kustom42 · 02-25-2013, 02:15 PM

Have you looked at the top utility yet?

wwinay · 02-25-2013, 02:28 PM

Yep I know top utility and also ps but I only wanted to display cpu load in % format... THis is in my Linux Project so please help me out......

Kustom42 · 02-25-2013, 02:29 PM

Dude use top and its infront of your face. put a little effort in here.

fortran · 02-26-2013, 01:42 AM

Install sysstat & try following command

Code:

$ mpstat

As well as you can see CPU usage in percentage using

Code:

$ sar

as well as you can use

Code:

$iostat

If you want to know who is eating cpu

Code:

$ ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -k 1 -r | head -10

lleb · 02-26-2013, 11:23 AM

htop if you dont like top

Habitual · 02-26-2013, 12:09 PM

vmstat