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To: lucasvr@gobolinux.org (Lucas Correia Villa Real)
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Subject: Re: how to calculate the system idle time
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lucasvr@gobolinux.org (Lucas Correia Villa Real) writes:
> "top" is an utility that cames with the Procps package.

But that's probably not what he needs anyway: by idle time he meant "no
keyboard and mouse input". He should take a look at /proc/interrupts IMHO.
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