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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2001-02-11 19:15:00 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2001-02-11 19:15:00 +0000
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Update.
* sysdeps/generic/getsysstat.c: Change return value of get_phys_pages and get_avphys_page to long int. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getsysstat.c: Likewise. * include/sys/sysinfo.h: Likewise. * sysdeps/generic/sys/sysinfo.h: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/sysinfo.h: Likewise.
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@@ -1401,3 +1401,22 @@ processors and so the call
@noindent
returns the number of processors which are currently inline (i.e.,
available).
+
+@cindex load average
+Before starting more threads it should be checked whether the processors
+are not already overused. Unix systems calculate something called the
+@dfn{load average}. This is a number indicating how many processes were
+running. This number is average over different periods of times
+(normally 1, 5, and 15 minutes).
+
+@comment stdlib.h
+@comment BSD
+@deftypefun int getloadavg (double @var{loadavg}[], int @var{nelem})
+This function gets the 1, 5 and 15 minute load averages of the
+system. The values are placed in @var{loadavg}. @code{getloadavg} will
+place at most @var{nelem} elements into the array but never more than
+three elements. The return value is the number of elements written to
+@var{loadavg}, or -1 on error.
+
+This function is declared in @file{stdlib.h}.
+@end deftypefun