Re: Load average

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Author: Alan Barrett
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: Load average
> > How are you getting load average for Linux??
> > The easy way requiring no privs is to open /proc/loadavg and read one line
> > from it.


NetBSD and FreeBSD have /kern/loadavg, but many people don't compile the
KERNFS driver into their kernels, or don't mount the /kern filesystem. If
more applications took advantage of it, I expect more machines would start
to make it available.

--apb (Alan Barrett)