On Jan 11, 2007, at 4:39 PM, George Georgalis wrote:
> That returns the inverse of the cpu idle % found in top.  I add
> 1 to the value before I invert it to prevent divide by zero, so
> output is pretty much between 0 and 1.
>
> Running two top reports seems a pretty inefficient way to get the
> value.  I think I can tune top a bit, but is there a more direct
> way to get the measurement?

Is the info from "sysctl vm.loadavg" (or the 'uptime' command) close  
enough to what you are looking for?

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-Chuck