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From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: SR10.3 source to determine load average
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Date: 2 Mar 91 20:44:34 GMT
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In article <1165@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>, e07@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Eric Wassenaar) writes:

  a. Values need yet to be properly scaled to get them in the usual format.

I'm not sure there is a "usual format."  SunOS returns the numbers in the
same format as Domain/OS.  Other systems seem to return doubles, if I'm to
believe the sendmail sources.  Yet another reason why reading /dev/kmem is a
bad idea.  Why are Unix folks so reluctant to add system calls?

  b. Unlike other apollo system calls, this one does not return a status.

Right you are.  I cribbed that code out of sendmail and didn't check it for
accuracy.