[ale] cpu usage in percentage

[David Hamm]

Looks like mpstat will work.  

Thanks.
On Thursday 05 February 2009 20:26:05 Jim Kinney wrote:
> load average does not translate to % cpu utilization unless it's less
> than 1. top shows a breakdown of % cpu used by each process over a
> timeframe. But conceptually, load average does not directly equate to
> an available amount of cpu resources.
>
> Tell your users to think of load average as the number of people in
> line at the bank or grocery store checkout.
>
> 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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