Kris Maglione <maglion...@gmail.com> wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: us-ascii, 36 lines --] > > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 06:50:07PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote: >>Eugh, that truly is horrible. >> >>Have a look at /proc/stat and section 1.8 of >>Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt in the Linux kernel tree. > > You're right, but I don't think /proc/stat is especially useful. > It requires too much processing for a script. I've lately used > iostat, because it gives me disk useage information along with > CPU usage. The attached script is fairly arcane, but most of it > goes towards determining the background/foreground color for a > given usage. > ...and of course upon re-reading this I remembered 'vmstat -n 1' :-/
Cheers -- Alexander Clouter .sigmonster says: What GOOD is a CARDBOARD suitcase ANYWAY?
