Comments on: How to monitor linux cpu usage?

By: SNMP ssCPUIdle Incorrect on CentOS 5.2 | MCB Systems

SNMP ssCPUIdle Incorrect on CentOS 5.2 | MCB Systems — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:29:12 +0000

[...] logged in to the CentOS command line and ran top and vmstat 5 (credit). Both showed id (idle) of 97% or more, so the CPU is fine; SNMP is returning an incorrect [...]

By: Kalikinkar Das

Kalikinkar Das — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:38:55 +0000

top is very useful, after top command press 1 to see usage of individual cpu(if system has multi-cpu)

By: verizon saga

verizon saga — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:10:00 +0000

thankz for this info

By: Pranab

Pranab — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:11:28 +0000

top is very useful

By: Hatem

Hatem — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:20:05 +0000

there is also many other e.g mpstat, iostat …

By: tomciaaa

tomciaaa — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:18:52 +0000

htop is the best!

By: aurimas.norkevicius

aurimas.norkevicius — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:36:06 +0000

top is also useful

By: 1c3d0g

1c3d0g — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:59:42 +0000

Or, you could just use “top”.

By: pavan

pavan — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:03:07 +0000

very good

By: pavan

pavan — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:01:29 +0000

good