Re: [hobbit] CPU info

[John Turner <jturner (at) ns.wcpss.net>]

On Apr 30, 2005, at 11:41 AM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 11:32:05AM -0400, kevin hanrahan wrote:
> >  Does anyone know how to get the info (and graphs hopefully) on CPU
> > utilization for unix machines? Currently, we see CPU load which is
> > different, and I believe a true measure of how hard the box is working
> > but I have people who feel the need to also see cpu utilization....any
> > ideas?
>
> How about enabling the vmstat module in the LARRD client ? That gives
> you cpu utilization split into system-time, user-time and idle-time as
> percentages. Just tell them that the green part is unused, and the
> red/yellow parts are when it is busy.
>
>
> Henrik

We use the bb-sar extension from www.deadcat.net on many of our hosts. 
I haven't tried to get it working with Hobbit yet, but it does CPU 
utilization in percentages.

John