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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: System call for querying system load?
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 20:26:59 -0700
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Paul Wouters wrote:
> 
> Just open the file /proc/loadavg and read and parse the data.

Or, even easier, call getloadavg(3).
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project