Re: getloadavg and proc filesystem
Andrew Miehs wrote:
I am looking at writing some monitoring scripts from data out of the /
proc filesystem for monitoring cpu, idle, etc.
I have had a look at the source code for getloadavg.c, and wondering
what happens if the kernel changes the data in /proc/loadavg while
> getloadavg is doing its stuff.
If you want to monitor just cpu utilisation, the load average isn't
going to be a great measure; IO slowdown will 'break' the load average,
for example.
You are probably better off looking at /proc/stat.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/loadinfo is an awful hack which might
be a good starting point.
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