Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 Nov 1997 02:15:43 +0100 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: Back in Production mode Again... |
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On Sat, Nov 15, 1997 at 11:04:40AM +0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > In general, load average as a metric is heavily overrated. > > Switching off whine mode and turning on useful mode: :-) > > Wouldn't it be cool if Linux actually defined a "busy average"? > Something that took into consideration CPU cycles, disk arms, and > networks? Perhaps it needs to be be a weighted triple. How > about > > For all things, it is a 1/5/15 minute decaying average expressed > as a value between 0 and 1, with 0 being idle and 1 being saturated. > > CPU: %CPU busy: a value between 0 and 1, > with 0 being idle and 1 being saturated
Check /proc/uptime, it has the machine's uptime in seconds and the time that so far has been burned in the idle loop. Which is already pretty close to what you want.
Ralf
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