Re: how to calculate the system idle time

From: Lucas Correia Villa Real (lucasvr@gobolinux.org)
Date: Mon Jul 21 2003 - 10:45:34 EST


"top" is an utility that cames with the Procps package.

Lucas

On Monday 21 July 2003 18:55, snoopyzwe wrote:
> thanks for you advice
> one foolish question
> what "top" means?
> could you tell me more about how to watch the system?
> thank you very much
> I am a newbie
>
> >On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, snoopyzwe wrote:
> >>I want to implement a module, whose main task is to check the system
> >>idle time(no keyboard and mouse input) and suspend the whole system(when
> >>the idle time is long enough). But there comes the problem, how to
> >>calculate the system idle time. How can I get the time user has no
> >>operation.
> >>thanks
> >>snoopyzwe
> >
> >The the source-code of `top` and review it. Make a user-mode
> >daemon to watch the system...
> >
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Dick Johnson
> >Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
> > Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
>
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