2017/09/02

Monitor load in the terminal

Just a small one that tends to get my attention when I have a terminal open into a remote machine and would like to notice right away when the load rises. Of course one could just use the echo -e "\a" if you have visual bell enabled or if you want to annoy people around you and have audio bell enabled.

while true; do 
  sleep 2.5
  foo=`cut -d. -f1 /proc/loadavg`
  if [ $foo -gt 4 ]; then 
    echo -e "high load ----- \a"
  else
    echo "meh"
  fi
done

while true; do

sleep 2.5

foo=`cut -d. -f1 /proc/loadavg`

if [ $foo -gt 4 ]; then

echo -e "high load ----- \a"

else

echo "meh"

done

Monitor load in the terminal is original content from devolve.

Tags:command line

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Charlie Herron

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