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Hello everyone.

Does anyone know where FreeBSD keeps the loadaverage information on the file system?

For example, in Linux (I know this is FreeBSD...this is purely an example) you can:

cat /proc/loadavg

and get a display of the loadaverage.

Now, I'm working with a web application that can take advantage of displaying the servers load average. The problem is, i'm not sure where it is located.


Some where in proc perhaps?

THanks,

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[elmore]

well I guess it really depends on what your looking for specifically. You could always run top which tries to display real time load averages. it uses the getloadavg(3) function and tries to display averages over the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes respectively.

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Right right...I follow you.

I'm trying to find the location so the web interface can call the loadaverage and display it on the web interface...

It's a little line you edit and point to the location where loadaverage is called...

I was hoping to modify the php file and to get it to display the average correctly...


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[Strog]

I'd probably look at how phpsysinfo is doing it. I'm not sure if you are using php or not but here's a snippet. (http://phpsysinfo.sourceforge.net)

function loadavg ()
{
$s = $this->grab_key('vm.loadavg');
$s = ereg_replace('{ ', '', $s);
$s = ereg_replace(' }', '', $s);
$results = explode(' ', $s);

return $results;
}

[socomm]

Have you tried uptime? Run uptime and have a script filter out load average.

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I'd probably look at how phpsysinfo is doing it. I'm not sure if you are using php or not but here's a snippet. (http://phpsysinfo.sourceforge.net)

function loadavg ()
{
$s = $this->grab_key('vm.loadavg');
$s = ereg_replace('{ ', '', $s);
$s = ereg_replace(' }', '', $s);
$results = explode(' ', $s);

return $results;
}



Yep. Running php 4.3.6...Works fine right now.

I kinda like that project. I wonder how hard it would be to integrate it into the server. Corporate love eye candy so that could be another thing to dazzle them with.

socomm...here is the snip from the php code:

// Load average
if(file_exists("/proc/loadavg") && !DISTRIBUTED_SETUP) {
$loadavg = file("/proc/loadavg");
$loadavg = explode(" ", $loadavg[0]);
$la_1m = $loadavg[0];
$la_5m = $loadavg[1];
$la_15m = $loadavg[2];

Really geared towards Linux...

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phpsysinfo...piece of cake

Now I just need to password protect the web site..

Pretty nice feature to have.
A lot of people here use it?

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[soup4you2]

uptime | awk '{ print $8 $9 $10 }'

or if you use the screen application you can create a ~/.screenrc and place this in it..

caption always "%{Yb} %Y-%02m-%02d %0c %{k}|%{C} %LD %{k}|%{G} %l %{k}|%{W} %-Lw%{+u}%n %t%{-u}%+Lw"

it will display good info on the bottom of the screen :)