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)