How do I find out Linux CPU utilization? (nixCraft)

[Posted January 15, 2007 by cook]

nixCraft presents a tutorial on monitoring CPU utilization under Linux. "Whenever a Linux system CPU is occupied by a process, it is unavailable for processing other requests. Rest of pending requests must wait till CPU is free. This becomes a bottleneck in the system. Following command will help you to identify CPU utilization, so that you can troubleshoot CPU related performance problems. Finding CPU utilization is one of the important tasks. Linux comes with various utilities to report CPU utilization."

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