On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:50:06PM -0500, Trevor Curtis wrote: > I've been reading up a bit on load averages, and looking at the output > of /proc/loadavg. I'm writing a program where I want to get the "generic > load average", similar to the xload, or the load applet in gnome. > > My initial thought was to use the first load average displayed by cat > /proc/loadavg (the 10 sec avg). Does this make sense? If not, where > should I look to get an accurate representation of the system's load? I took a quick look in the xload sources and that's what it does. Sounds reasonable :) Jody > > thanks, > -- > Trevor Curtis > http://www.somaradio.ca/~tcurtis > > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://www.oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux --