Re: Starving Student Needs Help

2001-09-06 Thread Starving Student
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Re: current cpu usage

2001-09-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 03:50:01PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > > On Thu, 06 Sep 2001 09:34:05 EDT, Peter Billson writes: > >> cat /proc/meminfo > >> cat /proc/loadavg > > > > The meminfo would help him but he posted that he didn't understand load > >average and, anyway, needs percent of CPU us

Re: current cpu usage

2001-09-06 Thread Andy Bastien
In the depths of that dark day Thu Sep 06, the words of Robert Waldner were the beacon: > > On Thu, 06 Sep 2001 09:34:05 EDT, Peter Billson writes: > >> cat /proc/meminfo > >> cat /proc/loadavg > > > > The meminfo would help him but he posted that he didn't understand load > >average and, anyway,

Starving Student Needs Help

2001-09-06 Thread Jackson Lim
Hi I am a Canadian University Student. I was wondering, does anyone know where I can get a cheap connection to the Internet in Canada. I can use the school's internet service but it is choppy and expensive and to boot, waiting at the free kiosks are more trouble then it's worth. I can't use Bel

Re: current cpu usage

2001-09-06 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 06 Sep 2001 09:34:05 EDT, Peter Billson writes: >> cat /proc/meminfo >> cat /proc/loadavg > > The meminfo would help him but he posted that he didn't understand load >average and, anyway, needs percent of CPU used. You can not calculate >CPU usage from load average. Not to mention the de

Re: current cpu usage

2001-09-06 Thread Peter Billson
> cat /proc/meminfo > cat /proc/loadavg The meminfo would help him but he posted that he didn't understand load average and, anyway, needs percent of CPU used. You can not calculate CPU usage from load average. You could use /proc to get CPU usage but it would be rather involved to do and why

cpu usage

2001-09-06 Thread Steve Wright
Thanks for that, top -bin 1 seems to do the trick nicely, also found a bit of documentation at http://faq.mrtg.org/linux/proc-load.html that should let me do it without using top. Cheers. Steve. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: current cpu usage

2001-09-06 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 06 Sep 2001 09:00:37 EDT, Peter Billson writes: >> sorry, I should have been more specific, I need to get the output in a forma >t >> a script could use. >> I have tried the uptime command however I'm a bit lost at what the numbers >> displayed represent (& how to turn these into a percen

Re: current cpu usage

2001-09-06 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Peter Billson writes: > > sorry, I should have been more specific, I need to get the output in a format > > a script could use. > > I have tried the uptime command however I'm a bit lost at what the numbers > > displayed represent (& how to turn these into a percentage). > > (If indeed this i

Re: current cpu usage

2001-09-06 Thread Peter Billson
> sorry, I should have been more specific, I need to get the output in a format > a script could use. > I have tried the uptime command however I'm a bit lost at what the numbers > displayed represent (& how to turn these into a percentage). > (If indeed this is a good way to do this) /usr/bin/to

current cpu usage

2001-09-06 Thread Steve Wright
Ilya, sorry, I should have been more specific, I need to get the output in a format a script could use. I have tried the uptime command however I'm a bit lost at what the numbers displayed represent (& how to turn these into a percentage). (If indeed this is a good way to do this) Steve. --

Re: how do you find current cpu usage on machine?

2001-09-06 Thread Ilya Martynov
SW> Hi, SW> I need to find the current cpu (& memory) usage on my machine, as a SW> percentage, can anyone help ? top -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)| | GnuPG 1024D/323BDEE

how do you find current cpu usage on machine?

2001-09-06 Thread Steve Wright
Hi, I need to find the current cpu (& memory) usage on my machine, as a percentage, can anyone help ? Steve. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]