iostat
Monitor CPU and disk usage with iostat
If you would like to get reports statistics for CPU and I/O devices on your system then iostat can help you. To install it: sudo apt-get install sysstat Run it 5 times, every 5 seconds: iostat -x 5 5 Output: avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 1.30 0.00 0.70 0.40 0.00 97.60 Device: [...]