Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 20:19:47 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz> Cc: Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD equiv. of /proc/loadavg Message-ID: <199807030319.UAA03532@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Jul 1998 14:05:56 %2B1200." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980703140442.18952A-100000@buddha.clear.net.nz>
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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? No. Not everybody wants to leak that sort of information, and why should I run two more daemons just to get three bloody numbers from the kernel? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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