Re: Load average

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Alan Barrett
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: Load average
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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