[ale] cpu usage in percentage

[David Hamm]

I'm writing a web application an want something lightweight.  Top seems a 
little heavy.  I'll checkout sar and iostat.  

Does anyone know how I might extract this information from /proc?

On Thursday 05 February 2009 20:01:20 Michael Morianos wrote:
> get ready for the onslaught of emails, but...
>
> top, sar, iostat
>
> in that order.
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:38 PM, David Hamm <ale at spinnerdog.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone have an easy way to figure out CPU utilization on a 0 to 100%
> > scale.  Load average from ps is too abstract for my users.
> >
> > Thanks.
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