On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 08:11:22PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > I'd like to poll the load average non interactively (possibly to alert me > if a big build has got stuck). The command "sysctl -n vm.loadavg" will report the information that you are after. Kind regards -- Matthias Scheler http://zhadum.org.uk/