Monitoring, anticipating, and reacting to server load is a full time job in some organizations. Unexpected spikes in resource usage can indicate a software or hardware problem. Gradual increases over ...

This Raspberry Pi project visualizes CPU usage with LED light show. A Blinkt module displays green under low load, red fast under high, lilac at 100%. Requires Blinkt Pimoroni Python library and ...

CPU monitoring utilities have a reputation problem, and it is not about accuracy so much as the junk that often rides along ...

Many Linux administrators and support technicians regularly use the top utility for real-time monitoring of their system state. In some shops, it is very typical to check top first when there is any ...

I have a Proxmox host with an i5 6600T CPU (4C4T part with base clock of 2.7GHz, and max Turbo of 3.5GHz). Proxmox install is PVE8, with a couple of VMs and another couple of CTs. Performance is ...

How do you tell how much load is on a CPU? On a desktop or laptop, the OS usually has some kind of gadget to display the basics. On a microcontroller, though, you’ll have to roll your own CPU load ...

If you ever develop an embedded system in a corporate environment, someone will probably tell you that you can only use 80% of the CPU or some other made-up number. The theory is that you will need ...