Re: Getting load average non-interactively

[Ryo ONODERA <ryo_on%yk.rim.or.jp@localhost>]

Hi,

From: Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>, Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 20:11:22 
+0530

> 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?

How about "uptime" command?

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