#!/bin/bash r_log "sysstat" "Test CPU measurements via iostat" TMPFILE=/var/tmp/iostat.cpi DISK=$(fdisk -l|grep -Po -m1 '^/dev/[\D]+') BLOCKS=4096 COUNT=20000 # drop caches echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches [ -e "$TMPFILE" ] && /bin/rm -f $TMPFILE /usr/bin/iostat -c 1 5 > $TMPFILE & # wait sleep 5 /bin/dd if="$DISK" bs=$BLOCKS count=$COUNT 2> /dev/null | sha256sum -b - &> /dev/null # wait sleep 5 CPU_USER_PERCENT=$(awk '$1 ~ /[0-9]/ {$1>a ? a=$1 : $1} END {print int(a)}' $TMPFILE) [ "$CPU_USER_PERCENT" -gt 3 ] || { r_log "sysstat" "Why aren't we generating activity..."; } r_checkExitStatus $?