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From: weigand@dazed.nol.net (Steve Weigand)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: System call for querying system load?
Date: 18 Sep 1996 23:13:44 -0500
Organization: Networks On-Line
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Message-ID: <51qh9o$bl1@dazed.nol.net>
References: <51cjj1$1k7@news.cyberenet.net> <DxrMGE.59t@pe1chl.ampr.org> <51htd7$19t@main.gbdata.com>
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In article <51htd7$19t@main.gbdata.com>,
Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com> wrote:
>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.
If you have rpc up and running and can do an "rup" on the machine,
that may be the easiest way.
C yas,
- Steve Weigand
(weigand@nol.net)