CPU utilization on a dual-core

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Fri Nov 2 16:30:39 EDT 2007


On 11/2/07, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> Does anyone know how to determine per-CPU utilization on a
> multi-cpu/core system.  It's a 2.4 kernel, and top doesn't break
> things down per-cpu.  Unless I'm running an ancient version of top...
> Also, how can you tell (without opening the box) if a system is
> multi-cpu vs. multi-core?
> /me swears we've covered this, but, well, it's 16:15 on a friday, and
> my brain is rather fried :)

  /proc/cpuinfo will tell you a whole bunch about what processor(s)
are in the system.  Not sure on overall processor utilization per
processor, but the 'P' column in top can display hat processor any
given process has LAST run on.

-- 
-- Thomas


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