On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Vaibhav Jain <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Is there any other way to do this? If I need to write a kernel module that > needs to get cpu utilization > should I still use proc/stat ? Is there a kernel function that can be used > in a module ? > > Thanks > Vaibhav Jain > The kernel writes all cpu metrics and more to /proc/stat. I/O data goes to /proc/diskstat and memory to /proc/vmstat. Top and other tools interpret the counters written to these files. You can also look at hardware performance counters, as used by the perf utility. -- Raghu S Udiyar
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