On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Alan Barrett wrote:
> 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.
NetBSD and FreeBSD (and BSDI) have a getloadavg() function that does the
business. Would that other OS packaged it up the same easy way.
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