finding load average

[Mike Howard 213317-5690]

In article <3501 at zorba.Tynan.COM> kaminsky-david at 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 at aic.hrl.hac.com