From: pat eyler <pat.eyler@...>
Date: 2008-04-01T23:56:55+09:00
Subject: Re: linux: getting the "load" values without using "top"

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:49 AM, James Dinkel <jdinkel@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to get some of the information provided by the "top"
>  command into my ruby program, in particular the "load" values.  The only
>  way I can think of is to use popen3 to run "top -n 1" and parse the
>  output, but I would like to not have to call an external command and do
>  it using pure ruby.

look at the contents of /proc/loadavg



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