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From: dillon@best.com (Matthew Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: System call for querying system load?
Date: 15 Sep 1996 09:15:41 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com)
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:In article <DxrMGE.59t@pe1chl.ampr.org>, Rob Janssen <pe1chl@amsat.org> wrote:
:>In <51cjj1$1k7@news.cyberenet.net> harry@cyberenet.net (Harry Hochheiser) writes:
:>
:>
:>>I'm looking for a system call/subroutine that will let me query the system
:>>load. This call would return information similar to that found in uptime(1),
:>>and should be roughly portable across BSD-like Unixes (i.e, Linux's sysinfo()
:>>won't work, even though that's my primary environment.
:>
:>There isn't any. Retrieving the load average is a very non-portable
:>operation, apparently nobody in the standards committees thought about
:...
Actually, there is a call now: getloadavg(double loadavg[], int nelem),
but who knows whether it is compatible with anyone else's.
-Matt
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