[X Servers] Overall processor usage command?

[Brian medley]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 08:43:20PM -0400, John May wrote:

> Right - but I want one that I can use in a shell script to set a 
> variable to the current processor usage value, not one that I have to 
> manually read myself.  Trying to construct a general processor-usage 
> monitoring script for a server.

quick and dirtry:

PERC_CPU=`ps -ax -o %cpu="" | perl -ne 'END {print "$tot\n"} $tot+=$_;'`

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