How To Check CPU Utilization In Linux With Command Line

sudo yum install sysstat Once the process finishes, you can use the mpstat command in the terminal as follows:

mpstat The system will display usage for each processor (or processor core).

The first line is a set of column labels. The second line is the value for each column:

%usr – % CPU usage at the user level %nice – % CPU usage for user processes labeled “nice” %sys – % CPU usage at the system (Linux kernel) level %iowait – % CPU usage idling waiting on a disk read/write %irq – % CPU usage handling hardware interrupts %soft – % CPU usage handing software interrupts %steal – % CPU usage being forced to wait for a hypervisor handling other virtual processors %guest – % CPU usage spent running a virtual processor %idle – % CPU usage on idle time (no processes, and not waiting on a disk read/write) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDJCY8LkMRU