after reading the proc.txt file
i come to the following conclusion
i get the total clock speed of the cpu from /proc/cpuinfo from cpu MHz entry
now i add the values of all the colomns in the first row of /proc/stat(the row which starts with cpu).this gives the total cpu usage.
then i am dividing the above value with 1000 and the resulting answer is again divided with the total clock speed to get the percentage of cpu usage.
is my approach correct.
i am checking my results with system moniter but there is a variation
plz rectify me
if i am wrong
thanks sounak
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 Erik Mouw wrote :
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>On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 12:18:44PM -0000, sounak chakraborty wrote:
> > i read the /proc/stat file but there were 7 entries along the first
> > line beginning with CPU but it is not specified what information they
> > are providing.
>
>Either read the kernel source (which always is the ultimate
>documentation), or read Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. Or read the
>source of top and vmstat.
>
>
>Erik
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