cpu activity

[David Kramer]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Stephen Adler wrote:

> I'm thinking of writing a quick and dirty routine which
> gets the total cpu activity which top reports. I was
> wondering if there was a field under the /proc file system
> which reports system,user, idle cpu activity or if there
> is a system call which returns this.
> 
> Cheers. Steve.

/proc/loadavg
though I don't know much about it, that's the most likely candidate.

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