How to find out the load on a PC?

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Re: How to find out the load on a PC? by tachyon (Chancellor) on Mar 15, 2002 at 20:14 UTC
There are plenty of simple ways to get the information using pre written software (not generally perl). Google search for "cpu memory usage winNT" cheers tachyon s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print	[reply]
Re: Re: How to find out the load on a PC? by Anonymous Monk on Mar 15, 2002 at 20:39 UTC
I did try the mem command with various options, but it just says there are 650K bytes of memory available in the kernel, no matter what machine I run it on. Not very useful. I looked through the google search, but everything is graphically based. Is there a command-line tool that returns text data?	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: How to find out the load on a PC? by tachyon (Chancellor) on Mar 15, 2002 at 21:10 UTC
From Google (adding command line to search terms) so the search is "cpu memory usage winNT command line" => www.freewarehome.com/System_Utilities/System_Tools/Memory_t.html This has a command line mode. cheers tachyon s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print	[reply]
Re: How to find out the load on a PC? by thunders (Priest) on Mar 15, 2002 at 21:05 UTC
pslist from the free Pstools suite, does what you describe for all running processes. Are you looking for the total memory usage for all processes put together?	[reply]