michael@stb.info.com (Michael Gersten) (04/08/91)
How do you determine the system load in unix? (System 5, R 1 or 2, not sure which). In particular, I want to get figures for percentage of time the CPU is busy (defined as any process other than 0 running), or equivalently, percentge of idle time (process 0 is running). This is more useful to me than just # of running processes (which is at best an approximation and pretty bad for jobs that fork). Michael Please reply directly; I do not receive this group. -- Michael michael@stb.info.com denwa!stb!michael anes.ucla.edu!stb!michael "Space is an illusion; disk space doubly so"