%CPU without using the top

[Madhu Sudhan_1]

Friends,
I have a requirement of not using top command and to generate similar output (what top gives).
Iam primarily looking for an alternate command like sar. PID, %CPU, TIME, USERNAME fields. sar -u gives me global statistics. Which is not I wanted.

I have done my homework of referring man pages of sar. I haven't found any flags that will help me.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Allen

[Stefan Farrelly]

You could use a freeware tool like truespeed;

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/truespeed-0.1.0/

Or you can use HP's own glance, it has options like -adviser_only -syntax which allow you to display a one page list of cpu users to stdout(like top).

[James Beamish-White]

Have you hit the man pages of vmstat?

And just a FYI, you know you can use top -f to pipe the output to a file?

Cheers!
James

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi
Have a look at vmstat -n .

Paula

[Stefan Farrelly]

Heres an even better tool for doing this!

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/yamm-2.6.0/

[benoit Bruckert]

Hi,
I'm a user of vmstat,
this for a global load :
#vmstat | tail -n 1 | awk ' { print "user :"$16" sys:"$17" idle:"$18 }'
Man vmstat for the details and options.
If you want a deteil for user, this the simple ps command, with proper options you will get %cpu, TIMe, for each process, then for each user..

hope that help
Benoit

[Chris Wilshaw · Accepted solution]

You could also try

UNIX95= ps -e -opid,pcpu,time,user,args

This will give the pid, %cpu, execution time, userid and command with aarguments

You can then sort this by piping it through

sort -rnk2

which will give the processes in order of $cpu used.

If you wish to use only a subset of processes then the normal flags (-u etc) for the ps command can be used.

Chris

[Steve Steel]

Hi

there are some goo dsolutions here but top with -f is till simplest

ex

top -d 1 -s 1 -n 100 -f /tmp/top

It is there


Steve Steel

[Fragon]

How about glance plus? It's in HP Application CD, trial version for 60 days only.

-Gerald-

[Madhu Sudhan_1]

This problem is solved. Thank you Chris.

Thanks,
Allen