From: Ben Bleything <ben@...>
Date: 2008-04-02T01:08:43+09:00
Subject: Re: linux: getting the "load" values without using "top"

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008, James Dinkel 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.

The uptime command will report it, if for whatever reason you don't have
or can't use the /proc option.

Ben