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 deep dark magic by which loadavg is generated. I still don´t understand that completely ;-) And yep, that should´ve read cat /proc/stat instead. (And no, I don´t know what the values in the first line exactly mean, but as soon as I set up mrtg again, I´m gonna read up on the kernel-sources) > You could use /proc to get CPU usage but it would be rather involved >to do and why bother when the nice man who wrote top has already done it >for you. :-) ´cause it´s *fun* ;-) cheers, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | <r.waldner@xsoft.at> \ \ Xsoft GmbH | T: +43 1 796 36 36 692 /
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