Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 14:05:56 +1200 (NZST) From: Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz> To: Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD equiv. of /proc/loadavg Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980703140442.18952A-100000@buddha.clear.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <359B9B21.6DE01652@bellatlantic.net>
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On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Donn Miller wrote: > Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > > > Am looking for the FreeBSD equivalent of the Linux file /proc/loadavg. I > > > want to use this instead of using getloadavg(). > > > > The obvious question here is "why"? > > I just figured that some Linux programs were trying to obtain load > average info that way, and to ease porting, well, I wanted to open the > equivalent FreeBSD file. I realize now though that if you want to port > some apps with low-level details, you gotta do a little reworking. > > I was trying to port wmmon from WindowMaker. It's just for Linux now. > In addition, the app tries to obtain loadaverage, uptime, and memory > info about the machine like this: (from wmmon.c) What about rpc.rstatd(8) - isn't this a common enough interface for all these numbers? Joe -- Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz> Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008 Network Architect, CLEAR Net http://www.clear.net.nz/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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