Two or one column per cpu stat

[do11]

Modern server frequently have many CPUs so detailed output of dstat for cpu become very long and don't fit into the screen, being that it gets "trimmed" i.e. deleted.

I request feature to make shorter all-cpu output, which should show only cpu load per cpu. So instead of 7 columns per cpu 'usr sys idl wai hiq siq stl' it will be just one, which should be sum of (usr sys wai hiq siq stl) or just (100 - idle). Such way it will be possible to see 7 times more cpus than now.

Additional useful improvement to that would be to show two column per cpu: load and iowait time. Load should be sum of (usr sys hiq siq stl) and iowait is wai (as I understand). That would be useful to see if cpu is actually crunching.

[dagwieers]

The default in the master branch is -C total since some time.

[do11]

WIth `total' it's impossible to see which processor is loaded or idle.

[dagwieers]

Then write a small plugin that does what you need, and if you contribute it I'll include it.

Writing a plugin is very easy and based on the existing plugin should only take you 30 minutes at most.

[dagwieers]

I am closing this issue as Dstat v0.7.3 includes the --cpu-use option to do just this.
Thanks for the feedback !