Dear all,

I'm running slackware 10 in commandline mode. I have an application
which I suspect is eating a lot of CPU time, e.g. cpu load close 100%
all the time. How can I monitor cpu load from the command line? Is a
tool available that prints cpu load somewere to the console all the
time?

Thnx

Max

On 2008-02-11, TheMaxer <max@max-irene.demon.nl> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm running slackware 10 in commandline mode. I have an application
> which I suspect is eating a lot of CPU time, e.g. cpu load close 100%
> all the time. How can I monitor cpu load from the command line? Is a
> tool available that prints cpu load somewere to the console all the
> time?
>
> Thnx
>
> Max

Maybe tload is what you're looking for

man tload

ken

TheMaxer wrote:
> How can I monitor cpu load from the command line? Is a
> tool available that prints cpu load somewere to the console all the
> time?

top


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On 2008-02-11, No_One <no_one@no_where.com> wrote:
> On 2008-02-11, TheMaxer <max@max-irene.demon.nl> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm running slackware 10 in commandline mode. I have an application
>> which I suspect is eating a lot of CPU time, e.g. cpu load close 100%
>> all the time. How can I monitor cpu load from the command line? Is a
>> tool available that prints cpu load somewere to the console all the
>> time?
>>
>> Thnx
>>
>> Max
>
> Maybe tload is what you're looking for
>
> man tload
>
> ken

as a follow up to my followup you might try htop...it's not part of the
slack distro, however, the source is a breeze to compile...or try top...htop
has somewhat more options.

ken

On 2008-02-11, TheMaxer <max@max-irene.demon.nl> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm running slackware 10 in commandline mode. I have an application
> which I suspect is eating a lot of CPU time, e.g. cpu load close 100%
> all the time. How can I monitor cpu load from the command line? Is a
> tool available that prints cpu load somewere to the console all the
> time?
>

Here's a script you can play with:

watch -n 5 "/usr/bin/top -b -n 1 | head -n 5"

Tom

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On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:31:34 -0800, TheMaxer wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I'm running slackware 10 in commandline mode. I have an application
> which I suspect is eating a lot of CPU time, e.g. cpu load close 100%
> all the time. How can I monitor cpu load from the command line? Is a
> tool available that prints cpu load somewere to the console all the
> time?
>
> Thnx
>
> Max

Hi Max,

At http://www.bootchart.org/ there's a tool called bootchart.
It doesn't log to the command line, but it does produce a nice
chart showing cpu and disk usage. It's default use is to profile the
boot processes, but it can also be used to monitor a specific
application, when it will also log any related processes.

e.g. to monitor firefox, start firefox with the bootchart logger:
sudo /sbin/bootchartd start firefox
which will profile firefox, run-mozilla.sh and firefox-bin

Good luck

Tom Newton wrote:

> On 2008-02-11, TheMaxer <max@max-irene.demon.nl> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm running slackware 10 in commandline mode. I have an application
>> which I suspect is eating a lot of CPU time, e.g. cpu load close 100%
>> all the time. How can I monitor cpu load from the command line? Is a
>> tool available that prints cpu load somewere to the console all the
>> time?
>>
>
> Here's a script you can play with:
>
> watch -n 5 "/usr/bin/top -b -n 1 | head -n 5"
>
> Tom
>

Or, do the same thing with
top
Four keystrokes. One process. Zero disk space. Zero dumbass ODE factor.

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Playing with the ODE will make you blind.

On 2008-02-11, Old Man <bill@witch.lan.invalid> wrote:
> Tom Newton wrote:
>>
>> watch -n 5 "/usr/bin/top -b -n 1 | head -n 5"
>
> Or, do the same thing with
> top
> Four keystrokes. One process. Zero disk space. Zero dumbass ODE factor.

True, but ''Tom's'' has comedic value.

--keith

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Keith Keller wrote:

>
> True, but ''Tom's'' has comedic value.
>

OK, I'll admit to a chuckle.

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TheMaxer wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm running slackware 10 in commandline mode. I have an application
> which I suspect is eating a lot of CPU time, e.g. cpu load close 100%
> all the time. How can I monitor cpu load from the command line? Is a
> tool available that prints cpu load somewere to the console all the
> time?
>
> Thnx
>
> Max

if you have another box with an X server
you can run gkrellmd on the box