29 Apr
2005
29 Apr
'05
1:09 p.m.
On 4/29/05, Steve Harris <S.W.Harris(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
Top is pretty useless for measuring loads that
aren't constant. It seems
to sample CPU loads at instants in time, which is why top is always high
on the list. I tend to use gkrellm.
Andrew Morton's zc package
(http://www.zipworld.com.au/~akpm/linux/#zc) contains a tool called
cyclesoak that I like to use for measuring CPU usage. It's a simple
command line app. I like that because I can easily store its output
for comparing different runs. Useful for profiling sometimes.
I moded it to spit out average usage over a run upon exit. Hopefully
my mod doesn't invalidate the whole thing...