Find Linux CPU utilization using SYSSTAT

This package includes system performance tools for Linux (Red Hat Linux / RHEL includes these tools by default).And for Debian or Ubuntu use "apt-get"

# apt-get install sysstat

Display the utilization of each CPU individually using mpstat

If you are using SMP (Multiple CPU) system, use mpstat command to display the utilization of each CPU individually. It report processors related statistics. For example, type command:

# mpstat
Output:

Linux 2.6.15.4 (debian)         Thursday 06 April 2006

05:13:05  IST  CPU   %user   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal   %idle    intr/s
05:13:05  IST  all   16.52    0.00    2.87    1.09    0.07    0.02    0.00   79.42    830.06

Mount Samba share using fstab

To mount a Samba share when Linux system comes up after reboot edit the /etc/fstab file and put entry as follows for your Windows/Samba share:

//ntserver/share /mnt/samba smbfs username=username,password=password 0 0

For example, if you want to mount a share called //ntserver/docs then you need to write following entry in /etc/fstab file:

//192.168.0.1/share /mnt/samba smbfs username=sameed,password=passwd123 0 0