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From: wje@orac (William J. Earl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: MIPS M/120:  what's the nlist symbol for cpu time?
Message-ID: <22761@orac.mips.COM>
Date: 5 Jul 89 18:53:45 GMT
References: <397@indri.primate.wisc.edu>
Sender: wje@mips.COM
Reply-To: wje@orac (William J. Earl)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems Inc.
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In-reply-to: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)

In article <397@indri.primate.wisc.edu>, bin@primate (Brain in Neutral) writes:
> 
> On a VAX, you can nlist "_cp_time" to get the info necessary to grab
> cpu time state info from a running system.  What's the symbol for
> doing this on a MIPS M/120 (running RISC/os 4.0)?  Do you use "sysinfo"
> and calculate the offset of the cpu field within a struct sysinfo?

      Yes, use the "cpu" field of "sysinfo" in place of the "_cp_time"
array.  Note, however, that the number and numeric order of the CPU
states is different in RISC/os 4.0 than in 4.3 BSD.  (There five states
in RISC/os, namely, in order,  "idle", "user", "system", "wait", and
"sxbrk".)