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I am looking to log CPU usage to a file over time on an RHEL system, and have seen this, but it doesn't seem to produce the right results - it seems like an anomaly between how ps and top calculate CPU usage.

I am trying to profile an Openfire server's CPU usage as we run various load tests against it. The script I am using does this:

while true; do dateStamp=$(($(date +%s%N)/1000000000)) echo -n $dateStamp >>usage.log ps -o pcpu,rsz -p $1 | tail -n1 >>usage.log; sleep $2; done

But the first data item from ps (pcpu) seems to be cumulative - I would like a simple number for current CPU usage, as is provided by top.

Does anyone know of an approach that provides this?

Thanks in advance

Rich

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I recommend nmon (with nmon analyser). You can get much more than just CPU usage and its extremely easy to use.

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  • Looks fantastic, but sadly I won't be allowed to install it on the machine I am doing these tests on :( Commented Oct 15, 2010 at 13:50
  • This is for a Java app - I ended up using the values exposed through JMX to get the information I wanted (see stackoverflow.com/questions/25552/… for more information). I'm going to accept this answer anyway as it would have done the trick had I had more freedom on the machine! Commented Oct 18, 2010 at 8:35

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