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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Subject: Re: CPU utilization
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In response to Preethi Natarajan <nataraja@cis.udel.edu>:

> Hello,
> 
> Is there a tool similar to mpstat (or mpstat itself) available to track 
> CPU utilization on FreeBSD? I am looking for something more elaborate 
> than top, and was wondering if anyone could help.

Depending on what you mean by "track", you might find SNMP+MRTG useful.
For example, I track:
http://www.potentialtech.com/mrtg/cpu.html

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Bill Moran
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