From: srau@... (Stafford A. Rau)
Date: 2008-04-05T02:07:29+09:00
Subject: Re: linux: getting the "load" values without using "top"

* pat eyler <pat.eyler@gmail.com> [080401 07:58]:
> 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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