The code in the snippet monitors the aggregate CPU usage (user+nice+system, all CPUs) on a Linux system. Can be included in a larger script (that's what I do, to log it to database)

UPDATE: reworked as per merlyn's advice.

use strict;
use warnings;

open(INFIL,"< /proc/stat") or die("Unable To Open /proc/stat: $!\n");
while()
{
   my @loads;
   my $cpuload = 0;
   for (0,1)
   {
      my $in = <INFIL>;
      (warn "something wrong!\n"), next unless $in =~ /^cpu\b/;
      push @loads,  ($in =~ /\d+/g)[0..2];
      seek INFIL, 0, 0;
      select (undef, undef, undef, 1) unless $_;
   }
   redo unless defined $loads[0];
   for (0..2) { $cpuload += ($loads[$_+3] - $loads[$_]); }
   print "$cpuload\n";
}
close(INFIL);

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