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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: /proc/loadavg?
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Andy Greenwood wrote:
> Does FreeBSD have a location that stores the load average information,
> similarly to /proc/loadavg in Linux? I've got a php site that displays this
> info, but I'm not sure where to point it to.

While you can mount /proc under FreeBSD, too, /proc has a bad security 
record and is disabled for a reason.  Consider looking at the output of 
sysctl, instead, specificly: "sysctl vm.loadavg"...

-- 
-Chuck