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On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, John Hay wrote:

> > 
> >  I'm searching for an easy way to get information cpu_load on FreeBSD. On
> > Linux people just reads /proc/stat, but that one won't work on FreeBSD.
> sysctl vm.loadavg

  getloadavg() might be better for use within a program.  It is portable
to all BSD4.4 systems.

> John
> -- 
> John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za
> 
> 

Tom