How to get cpu utilization through code with least overhead?

[Vaibhav Jain]

Thanks! Just curious to know if  this is how "top" does it.

Thanks
Vaibhav Jain

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 00:38, Vaibhav Jain <vjoss197 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to write code to get and record the cpu utilization in certain
> > interval with the least overhead.
>
> try to derive them from /proc/loadavg or /proc/stat...
>
> --
> regards,
>
> Mulyadi Santosa
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>
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