Re: Getting load average non-interactively

[Steve <pf%unliketea.com@localhost>]

If you have sysstat installed sar -q should give you historic load 
averages.

Steve

On 2012-03-06 08:43, Nicolas Joly wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 08:11:22PM +0530, 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?
>
> uptime(1)