Measure load of ubuntu server

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Published on 2012-11-13T11:03:47Z Indexed on 2012/11/13 11:21 UTC
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I have Ubuntu server and apache2 installed on it. I want to benchmark it using ab tool from another machine. I want to know how measure load of this program. In top is showing this:

top - 06:02:19 up 3 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.28, 0.26, 0.12
Tasks:  94 total,   2 running,  92 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 67.2%us,  5.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 26.3%id,  0.5%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.5%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    499320k total,   342028k used,   157292k free,    42504k buffers
Swap:   514044k total,        0k used,   514044k free,    71388k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 1521 www-data  20   0 49180  22m 4144 S   23  4.6   0:00.68 apache2
 1520 www-data  20   0 49180  22m 4152 S   22  4.6   0:00.66 apache2
 1124 www-data  20   0 49180  22m 4152 S   22  4.6   0:00.70 apache2
 1519 www-data  20   0 49180  22m 4152 S   20  4.6   0:00.70 apache2
 1525 www-data  20   0 49180  22m 4144 S   16  4.6   0:00.47 apache2
 1123 www-data  20   0 49168  22m 4152 S    9  4.6   0:00.78 apache2
 1125 www-data  20   0 49168  22m 4152 S    9  4.6   0:00.77 apache2
 1126 www-data  20   0 49168  22m 4152 S    9  4.6   0:00.73 apache2
 1127 www-data  20   0 49168  22m 4152 S    9  4.6   0:00.74 apache2
 1523 www-data  20   0 42896  14m 3388 R    5  3.1   0:00.14 apache2
 1038 whoopsie  20   0 24476 3720 2856 S    0  0.7   0:00.01 whoopsie
 1089 root      20   0 34060 6988 3640 S    0  1.4   0:00.05 apache2
 1338 ubuntu    20   0  2832 1192  944 S    0  0.2   0:00.30 top
 1417 ubuntu    20   0  9652 1456  824 S    0  0.3   0:00.02 sshd
    1 root      20   0  3540 1876 1248 S    0  0.4   0:00.83 init
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.03 ksoftirqd/0
    4 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kworker/0:0
    5 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.48 kworker/u:0
    6 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0
    7 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0
    8 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/1
    9 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kworker/1:0
   10 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 ksoftirqd/1
   11 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.17 kworker/0:1
   12 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/1
   13 root       0 -20     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 cpuset
   14 root       0 -20     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
   15 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kdevtmpfs
   16 root       0 -20     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 netns
   17 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.32 kworker/u:1
   18 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 sync_supers
   19 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 bdi-default
   20 root       0 -20     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kintegrityd
   21 root       0 -20     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd
   22 root       0 -20     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ata_sff
   23 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khubd

So its difficult to do it without any script or program. How can I do this?

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