a way to read the current cpu load from the shell or via a cmdline utility in cygwin?

[Chris January]

> > > but I'm running 1.3.12?
> > >
> > > Isn't that recent enough?
> >
> > Don't know.  I'm running 1.3.12-2 and I know it's there.
> >
> > $ ls /proc/
> > 1540  1808  2536  2616  2660  2684  2848     meminfo   stat    version
> > 1764  2444  2592  2636  2680  2712  loadavg  registry  uptime
> >
> > J.
> >
> Don't get me wrong../proc exists and looks very similar to yours, but I
get that error (i.e. the complaint that /proc is not mounted) whenever I run
top.
I think this is because top is looking for a file in /proc that's not there.
Please send me the source package for the version of top you are using.
You can download a working version of top here:
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/procps-010801/

Chris



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