a way to read the current cpu load from the shell or via a cmdline utility in cygwin?

Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Thu Jul 25 13:37:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Greg McCrory wrote:

> At 7/24/2002 11:38 PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Jim George wrote:
> >
> >Jim,
> >
> >I did a google search on "linux top cpu load".  Here's a top from the
> >first match: http://www.groupsys.com/topsrc/top-3.5beta9.tar.gz
> >It took about an hour to make it compile and run under cygwin 1.3.12-2 on
> >Win2k.  The patch is attached.
> >
> >Note: I just compiled and ran the code; I haven't verified the correctness
> >of the output.  It seemed to work without crashing, and the output looked
> >plausible.  I also haven't tested it on any system other than mine (above).
> >Try it at your own risk.
> >     Igor
>
> Notes on my quick attempt this morning:
>
> To get the ./Configure to run properly I needed a symbolic link to tcsh:
> ln -s /bin/tcsh /bin/csh

Right, I have that too (from way back, no wonder I forgot to mention it).

> Also chose module linux when asked.

Yep.  Again, should have said that.

> for owner, used SYSTEM instead of default root

chown and chgrp didn't seem to work for me at all.  However, I don't have
a CYGWIN variable, so that might be the reason.  I don't miss it, though.

> install script did not move the executable into the proper directory:

I used /usr/bin/install as the install command.

> ./install -o SYSTEM -m 4711 -g SYSTEM top /usr/local/bin
> chown: changing ownership of `/usr/local/bin/top': No such file or directory
> chgrp: changing group of `/usr/local/bin/top': No such file or directory
> chmod: changing permissions of `/usr/local/bin/top': No such file or directory
> make: *** [install-top] Error 1

See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN644
It may be necessary to use the local script after all, and re-write it to
boot.

> I was able to install it manually and it appears to work.
> GMc

Not quite correctly -- see
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-07/msg01995.html
	Igor
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