On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:53:10 -0700, max8y wrote:

> Request for information on good tool that can record cpu usage
> statistics on linux.
I would suggest:
cat, crond, awk (or sed) and rrdtool.

Use cron to record into rrd database every 5 minutes ('rrdtool update'),
draw nice graphs of the data for display later or in realtime (using'
rrdtool graph')

### Kernel 2.6: user(normal+nice) : system : idle :iowait
cat /proc/stat | awk '/cpu0 / { print $2+$3":"$4":"$5":"$6 }'

## Kernel 2.4: user(normal+nice) : system : idle : U
cat /proc/stat | awk '/cpu / { print $2+$3":"$4":"$5":U" }'

/devlin

max8y@yahoo.com wrote:
> Request for information on good tool that can record cpu usage
> statistics on linux.


You can use top from command line
or grekllm