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hjkl

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Registered: 2021-07-22

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Get CPU percentage & RAM percentage in terminal for status.

Hi there,

I just switched to i3 and I'm using i3blocks, not i3status (where that's already done)

How would I figure out the summarized CPU percentage (as in, not per core)  and the RAM percentage used? I tried looking at slstatuses & i3status's source code but couldn't figure out anything on how to translate those to shellscript.

Then I tried via google, I didn't find anything useful other than using top to figure it out which wouldn't work since it's supposed to be in a status.

Thanks.

Last edited by hjkl (2021-07-31 10:53:31)

seth

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Re: Get CPU percentage & RAM percentage in terminal for status.

/proc/stat for the cpu, /proc/meminfo for the RAM.
The cpu load has to be calculated as difference, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/233 … e-in-linux

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hjkl

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From: Europe

Registered: 2021-07-22

Posts: 5

Re: Get CPU percentage & RAM percentage in terminal for status.

/proc/stat for the cpu, /proc/meminfo for the RAM.
The cpu load has to be calculated as difference, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/233 … e-in-linux

Thank you, i didn't know about those.