NAME getloadavg - get system load averages CONTENTS Library Synopsis Description Diagnostics See Also History LIBRARY .Lb libc SYNOPSIS .In stdlib.h int getloadavg "double loadavg[]" "int nelem" DESCRIPTION The getloadavg function returns the number of processes in the system run queue averaged over various periods of time. Up to nelem samples are retrieved and assigned to successive elements of loadavg[]. The system imposes a maximum of 3 samples, representing averages over the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes, respectively. DIAGNOSTICS If the load average was unobtainable, -1 is returned; otherwise, the number of samples actually retrieved is returned. SEE ALSO uptime(1), kvm_getloadavg(3), sysctl(3) HISTORY
