[rrd-users] Re: cpu usage

[Stephan Harren]

Am Mittwoch, 12. Februar 2003 17:53 schrieb Sonja Pieper:
> Hi,
>
> has anyone done some logging on cpu-usage
> as in
>
> cat /proc/stat?
>
> I want to graph %-Values of idle/user/nice/system time
> the values cat /proc/stat gives you back are simply
> 'jiffies' counted since the computer rebooted
>
> How do I best save these values? And then how do I
> calculate the percent values or must I do this before
> storing in the rrd?
>
> Thx for any help
>
> Sonja

As these are counters, you surely can use them in rrd as counters. As you see, 
these are 1/100 seconds, and if you put them into the rrd as counters, you'll 
get exactly the percentage.

Example:

idle counter1: 30000
idle counter2: 60000

Difference: 30000

Divided by 300 seconds (as rrd always calculates a rate), you'll get 100% idle 
time (just an example, will never happen like this, just to make things 
easy).

Best regards,

Stephan


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