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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: cpu load
To: tom@sdf.com (Tom)
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:11:30 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: jhay@mikom.csir.co.za, sebesty@cs.elte.hu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
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> > >  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.

If it is not a wrapper function for a sysctl(0 call, it should be.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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