Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The Stupidification Of systemd Haters Date: 14 May 2026 17:52:38 GMT Lines: 30 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net jnlGtvbO69ulgsNi5GaQPQ/2z9ZV1jkjQBb3KAPOQGqkUlI6JA Cancel-Lock: sha1:dOD2aV8K75LZCQ8Gxi0yt+xcWWQ= sha256:rMjK+PINA1XuvTl2l3Ivda2txwxJnBBC22EhL3o2clY= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:86667 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.