Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:09:55 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> To: kamal kc <kamal_ckk@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: using get_system_info() - obtaining system load averages Message-ID: <20060110090955.GF60380@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20060110075910.72058.qmail@web30006.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060110054656.GE89638@dan.emsphone.com> <20060110075910.72058.qmail@web30006.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, 2006-Jan-09 23:59:10 -0800, kamal kc wrote: >thanks i tried getloadavg() it worked. > >but when i tried to put it in the kernel the kernel > failed to link. You didn't mention the kernel bit before. To access the load average in the kernel, you just access "averunnable" (see <sys/resource.h>). Note that you cannot do floating point arithmetic in the kernel so the load averages are stored as fixed point numbers. -- Peter Jeremy
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