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Old 08-26-2008
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Hi All,

Can anyone help me..

I want to know the command to check the overall CPU usage of the server.

Note:

I don't want the CPU usge of each and every process.
I just want to know thw aggregate CPU utilization of the server.
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Old 08-26-2008
you can use..
top
topas
vmstat
and many more... go through man pages..
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Old 08-26-2008
Just the load?
uptime...
 
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