Quickly View Processor Usage From Ubuntu Command Line
It is simple to view the per processor usage and statistics in Ubuntu just using the command line.
To do this, first install sysstat using the following Terminal command :
sudo apt-get install sysstat
After it is installed, mpstat is the command to view the processor usage. To display the average CPU utilization per processor, simply type :
mpstat -P ALL
The above example shows a dual processor system....