[wmii] Re: Adding cpu usage to status bar

Kris Maglione <maglione.k_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 06:50:07PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote:
>>Eugh, that truly is horrible.
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>>Have a look at /proc/stat and section 1.8 of
>>Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt in the Linux kernel tree.
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> You're right, but I don't think /proc/stat is especially useful.
> It requires too much processing for a script. I've lately used
> iostat, because it gives me disk useage information along with
> CPU usage. The attached script is fairly arcane, but most of it
> goes towards determining the background/foreground color for a
> given usage.
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...and of course upon re-reading this I remembered 'vmstat -n 1' :-/

Cheers

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Alexander Clouter
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