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getloadavg(3C)

Name | Synopsis | Description | Return Values | Errors | Usage | Attributes | See Also

Name

getloadavg– get system load averages

Synopsis

#include <sys/loadavg.h>

int getloadavg(double loadavg[ ], int nelem);

Description

The getloadavg() function returns the number of processes in the system run queue averaged over various periods of time. Up to nelem samples are retrieved and assigned to successive elements of loadavg[ ]. The system imposes a maximum of 3 samples, representing averages over the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes, respectively. The LOADAVG_1MIN, LOADAVG_5MIN, and LOADAVG_15MIN indices, defined in <sys/loadavg.h>, can be used to extract the data from the appropriate element of the loadavg[ ] array.

Return Values

Upon successful completion, the number of samples actually retrieved is returned. If the load average was unobtainable, -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.

Errors

The getloadavg() function will fail if:

EINVAL

The number of elements specified is less than 0.

Usage

If the caller is in a non-global zone and the pools facility is active, the behavior of getloadavg() is equivalent to that of pset_getloadavg(3C) called with psetid set to PS_MYID.

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
MT-Level	Async-Signal-Safe

See Also

uptime(1), w(1), pooladm(1M), Kstat(3PERL), pset_getloadavg(3C), standards(5)

Name | Synopsis | Description | Return Values | Errors | Usage | Attributes | See Also