Re: How to determine average load?

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From: Peter Verthez
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 00:00

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rubin@setinc.com (Don Rubin) writes:
: Is there a tool to determine average load (cpu,memory) on a system so you
: can tell when it time to upgrade CPU, memory etc? The system in question
: has a web server, pop server, as well as other daemons (no user processes).
: Please Email, thanks.
: 
: Don
: rubin@setinc.com
: 
You can try to cat some of the files in the /proc directory.  If
I remember correctly there is a file in there called avgload (so you
should do then 'cat /proc/avgload').  I suppose the man pages contain
a description of it.

Hope this helps
__________________________________________________________________________
Peter Verthez                                            Software Engineer 
Email: at work                                     pver@bsg.bel.alcatel.be
       at home                                     pver@innet.be
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Subject: Re: How to determine average load?
Date: 1996/03/27
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