CPU statistics calculation algorithm

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mah454

I too many search on internet to found algorithm calculated %Us , %Sy , %Id , ... on result of top command . but can not found any documentation .
some documents like this or this calculate cpu utilization but output not equal with output of top command . (too diff !!!)

How do the top or mpstat commands calculate cpu statistics ?

mah454

I calculate with this formula :

result=(CurrentUse-PrevUse)*100/(CurrentTotal-PrevTotal)

this is a example script calculate [us,sys,idle] of cpu .

#!/bin/bash 

prev_total=0 
prev_idle=0
prev_us=0
prev_sys=0

while true
do
        line=$(head -n1 /proc/stat)

        us=$(echo $line | awk '{print $2}') 
        ni=$(echo $line | awk '{print $3}') 
        sy=$(echo $line | awk '{print $4}') 
        id=$(echo $line | awk '{print $5}') 
        io=$(echo $line | awk '{print $6}') 
        irq=$(echo $line | awk '{print $7}') 
        si=$(echo $line | awk '{print $8}') 
        st=$(echo $line | awk '{print $9}') 
        g=$(echo $line | awk '{print $10}') 
        gn=$(echo $line | awk '{print $11}') 

        total=$(expr $us + $ni + $sy + $id + $io + $irq + $si + $st + $g + $gn) 

        let "diff_total=$total-$prev_total"
        let "diff_idle=$id-$prev_idle"
        let "diff_us=$us-$prev_us"
        let "diff_sys=$sy-$prev_sys"

         let "result_us=$diff_us * 100 / $diff_total" 
         let "result_idle=$diff_idle * 100 / $diff_total" 
         let "result_sys=$diff_sys * 100 / $diff_total" 

         echo -en "\rCpu   us:$result_us%  sys:$result_sys%  idle:$result_idle%\b\b"

        prev_total=$total 
        prev_idle=$id
        prev_us=$us
        prev_sys=$sy
        sleep 1
done

output like this :