Calculating CPU usage with python on Linux
This small script prints overall CPU usage in a Linux system. You can use the get_cpu() function to get the CPU usage between 0.0 and 1.0 (all CPU cores were taken into consideration, so the maximal value is also 1.0 on a multi-core system).
import os, time
last_worktime=0
last_idletime=0
def get_cpu():
global last_worktime, last_idletime
f=open("/proc/stat","r")
line=""
while not "cpu " in line: line=f.readline()
f.close()
spl=line.split(" ")
worktime=int(spl[2])+int(spl[3])+int(spl[4])
idletime=int(spl[5])
dworktime=(worktime-last_worktime)
didletime=(idletime-last_idletime)
rate=float(dworktime)/(didletime+dworktime)
last_worktime=worktime
last_idletime=idletime
if(last_worktime==0): return 0
return rate
while True:
print "get_cpu()",get_cpu()
time.sleep(0.5)
The source of this post is my previous blog at HA5KFU.