Re: Getting load average non-interactively

[David <dhs%chromiq.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2012, Mayuresh wrote:

> I see two utilities, top and sysstat that show the information related to
> system load.
>
> I'd like to poll the load average non interactively (possibly to alert me
> if a big build has got stuck).
>
> I could get it by fooling top by overriding TERM variable and then
> extracting info, something like
> TERM="" top 2>/dev/null | head -1
>
> What is a good way to achieve this on NetBSD?
> Mayuresh.


        sysctl vm.loadavg


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