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From: howard@aic.dpl.scg.hac.com (Mike Howard (213)317-5690)
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: Re: finding load average
Summary: look in comp.sources.unix
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Date: 27 Oct 89 04:48:44 GMT
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In article <3501@zorba.Tynan.COM> kaminsky-david@CS.Yale.EDU (David Kaminsky) writes:
>	I have to be able to get the load average on a UNIX
>machine....   I was wondering
>if someone could provide the source to either of those, or
>perhaps a C call which returns the information.

The comp.sources.unix archive contains a program called "load"
which it describes as "Routines to check the load average".  I haven't
used them, but it might help you.  One such archive site is

	gatekeeper.dec.com

which supports anonymous ftp.

Mike Howard   howard@aic.hrl.hac.com