Re: Getting load average non-interactively

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

Sorry not sar(wrong os)

On 2012-03-06 08:58, Steve wrote:
> 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)