how to find current cpu speed & utilization

[Pietro Cerutti]

Eric Crist wrote:
> man top

as for "don't TOP post" ?
> 
> 
> On Jun 28, 2007, at 3:17 PMJun 28, 2007, Steve Franks wrote:
> 
>> I've been playing with powerd, and my system seems mighty sluggish.  I
>> can't find anything in the manpages about how to get current metrics
>> on the cpu.   powerd is just a daemon, acpi and cpufreq are drivers,
>> acpiconf just puts it to sleep, what am I missing?

I don't know of any utility in the base system to show the current cpu
frequency, but you can easily retrieve that information using sysctl.
Have a look at the OIDS rooted at "dev.cpu." with

$ sysctl dev.cpu.


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