Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.chmurka.net!news.sonologic.net!newsgate.tebibyte.org!.POSTED.251.red-79-150-114.dynamicip.rima-tde.net!Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The Stupidification Of systemd Haters Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 22:50:18 +0200 Organization: Tebibyte_Retro_Gaming Message-ID: References: <18ae97fc33e48f9d$12583$2923323$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <10ttm9k$1g1he$6@dont-email.me> <10tvbbj$1vrb3$1@dont-email.me> <10u07tq$29ejq$1@dont-email.me> <502edmx1hk.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10u37hu$33p49$3@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mailgate.tebibyte.org; posting-host="251.red-79-150-114.dynamicip.rima-tde.net:79.150.114.251"; logging-data="27806"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@tebibyte.org" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:86673 On 2026-05-14 19:52, rbowman wrote: > On Thu, 14 May 2026 12:54:48 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: > > >> I am thinking now of an applet in XFCE 4 called "multiload ng". I think >> it comes from an old gnome one. Well, the thing is it can graph >> processor load as "User, System, Nice, or I/O wait". Kernel load would >> be "System". But maybe other things are also "System". Maybe libc? > > I had to install it on openSUSE with > > sudo zypper install sysstat > sudo systemctl enable sysstat > sudo systemctl enable sysstat > > There are a bunch of flags described in the man page but > > sar > Linux 6.17.0-23-generic (kropotkin) 05/14/2026 _x86_64_ (8 CPU) > > 12:00:15 AM CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle > 12:10:18 AM all 0.48 0.00 0.48 0.04 0.00 99.00 > 12:20:05 AM all 0.50 0.08 0.51 0.07 0.00 98.84 > 12:30:03 AM all 0.48 0.00 0.47 0.05 0.00 99.00 > 12:40:01 AM all 0.49 0.00 0.49 0.06 0.00 98.96 > 12:50:01 AM all 0.47 0.00 0.47 0.05 0.00 99.00 > 01:00:14 AM all 0.49 0.00 0.48 0.06 0.00 98.98 > > That's cumulative but 'sar -u 2 10' will report every 2 seconds for 10 times. > > The docs say 'system' means kernel. you also get iostat and pidstat. pidstat is useful to see who is dipping into the kernel. "multiload ng" is a GUI tool, but considering that all apps drink from the same sources for their data, %system must be kernel on all tools. Then libc must be userland. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;