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Xref: sserve comp.unix.programmer:16762 comp.unix.misc:12215 comp.unix.questions:48921 comp.unix.aix:37112 comp.unix.bsd:13846 Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!netnews.upenn.edu!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!psuvax1!news.ecn.bgu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!portal.austin.ibm.com!awdprime.austin.ibm.com!accapadi From: accapadi@austin.ibm.com (Matt Accapadi) Subject: Re: %CPU usage for a process ? Sender: news@austin.ibm.com (News id) Message-ID: <CpAqxF.1w3E@austin.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 21:12:51 GMT Reply-To: accapadi@austin.ibm.com References: <2q75oj$s1c@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: IBM, Austin, Tx. Lines: 14 I must be missing something. How about ps -eF "%c %u %p %C"|sort -rn +3 In article <2q75oj$s1c@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, Libor Michalek <libor@rasputin.ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote: > I was wondering if anyone knows how to calculate %CPU usage for a process. >I know how to get information from the kernals memory, but the kernal does >NOT keep %CPU usage for a process (altough it does keep CPU time for a >process), so I assume that you use some of the fields from the process table >to calculate this information. So does any one know how to do this >calculation??? I don't care which unix you can help me with since the >process table for most unices are pretty similar, and I'm far too familiar >with alot of them :-) but if you really want to pick one heres a list of >OS's that I'll need the information for: