> Right. But those are *average* values. I'd like to be able to read > real-time CPU load info. For instance, if I run a CPU-intensive > process, the value in /proc/loadavg will change very slowly. I need > to be able to read that CPU is 100% busy at least one second after > this happens.
This is just a guess, but maybe you can't. Maybe the cpu is either 100% busy or 0% busy, depending on whether or not linux is running a program. After a minute, you can say, OK, a program was running 20% of the time. Maybe a second is not long enough to say anything interesting. -chris
