Re: How to determine average load?

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From: Jeff Uphoff
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 00:00

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"T" == TeeJay  <teejay@Cam031102.student.utwente.nl> writes:

T> Peter Verthez wrote:
>> 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.

T> cat /proc/loadavg (not "avgload" :] ) only gives you info over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. A
T> tool to display load in a graph is xload (--> runs under X window!).

There's also something called xsysinfo which shows four status bars: CPU
load, CPU idle percentage, Memory usage (broken into three shadings,
unshared, shared, and cache), and swap usage.  Very handy!

--Up.

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