Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:58:03 +0100 From: Jim George To: John Morrison Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: a way to read the current cpu load from the shell or via a cmdline utility in cygwin? Message-Id: <20020724215803.024f3ea3.jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: JSDM Services Ltd Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:41:05 +0100 (BST) John Morrison wrote: > Does cat /proc/stat | grep cpu give you the information you want? > > J. > > On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Dylan Cuthbert wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I've searched through the archives but can't seem to find any mention of > > this, is there a way to display the cpu load via a shell utility? > > > > If not, can someone point me to the posix function call (if it exists) so I > > can write a little utility. I want to do some load balanced compiles across > > several machines by spawning the compile across the network via "make -j", > > and a wrapper for gcc, then use rsh (ssh or rexec) and network sharing to do > > the compile. The thing is I only want to use machines whose loads are low. > > > > Of course, if a tool for this kind of thing already exists, then please give > > me a pointer. > > > > Regards > > > > --------------------------------- > > Q-Games, Dylan Cuthbert. > > http://www.q-games.com Under Linux we had 'top'. Is there an equivalent or something that someone is working on? Jim -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/