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| 1 | .\" @(#)getloadavg.3
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| 2 | .\"
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| 3 | .TH GETLOADAVG 3 "Nov 14, 2005"
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| 4 | .AT 3
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| 5 | .SH NAME
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| 6 | getloadavg \- system load average values
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| 7 | .SH SYNOPSIS
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| 8 | .nf
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| 9 | .ft B
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| 10 | #include <stdlib.h>
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| 11 |
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| 12 | int getloadavg(double *\fIaverages\fP, int \fInelem\fP)
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| 13 | .ft R
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| 14 | .fi
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| 15 | .SH DESCRIPTION
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| 16 | .B Getloadavg
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| 17 | returns the system load average values as elements of
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| 18 | .IR averages
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| 19 | up to
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| 20 | a maximum of
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| 21 | .IR nelem
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| 22 | elements.
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| 23 | The system load average is the average number of
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| 24 | runnable processes over a certain period. Currently the averages are
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| 25 | delivered over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes of system usage. So
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| 26 | currently the system maximum is 3.
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| 27 | .SH RETURNS
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| 28 | The returned value of
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| 29 | .B getloadavg
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| 30 | is zero or more if the call was successful, or a negative value if the
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| 31 | call was unsuccessful. If the call was successful, the number of
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| 32 | elements entered into
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| 33 | .IR averages
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| 34 | is returned.
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| 35 | .SH SEE ALSO
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| 36 | .BR uptime (1).
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