using get_system_info() - obtaining system load averages

[Peter Jeremy]

On Mon, 2006-Jan-09 23:59:10 -0800, kamal kc wrote:
>thanks i tried getloadavg() it worked.
>
>but when i tried to put it in the kernel the kernel
> failed to link. 

You didn't mention the kernel bit before.  To access
the load average in the kernel, you just access
"averunnable" (see <sys/resource.h>).  Note that you
cannot do floating point arithmetic in the kernel so
the load averages are stored as fixed point numbers.

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Peter Jeremy