Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 11:26:51 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD equiv. of /proc/loadavg Message-ID: <199807021826.LAA01241@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jul 1998 01:59:24 -0000." <Pine.NEB.3.96.980702015256.1590A-100000@myname.my.domain>
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> Am looking for the FreeBSD equivalent of the Linux file /proc/loadavg. I
> want to use this instead of using getloadavg().
The obvious question here is "why"?
> I'm also looking for the equivalent of these. This is what I think they
> are:
>
> Linux FreeBSD
> ===== =======
> /proc/meminfo /proc/curproc/mem
> /proc/stat /proc/curproc/status
No. /proc/meminfo is memory information about the machine, while /proc/
curproc/mem is the current process' address space. /proc/stat is
random junk, while /proc/curproc/stat is the status of the current
process.
> /proc/loadavg ??? (probably /kernel)
sysctlbyname("vm.loadavg", ...)
> /proc/uptime ??? (probably /kernel)
The difference between gettimeofday() and sysctlbyname("kern.boottime", ...)
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