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1.1       cgd        37: .Dt GETLOADAVG 3
                     38: .Os
                     39: .Sh NAME
                     40: .Nm getloadavg
                     41: .Nd get system load averages
1.8     ! perry      42: .Sh LIBRARY
        !            43: .Lb libc
1.1       cgd        44: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     45: .Fn getloadavg "double loadavg[]" "int nelem"
                     46: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     47: The
                     48: .Fn getloadavg
1.5       cgd        49: function returns the number of processes in the system run queue
                     50: averaged over various periods of time.
                     51: Up to
1.1       cgd        52: .Fa nelem
                     53: samples are retrieved and assigned to successive elements of
                     54: .Fa loadavg Ns Bq .
                     55: The system imposes a maximum of 3 samples, representing averages
                     56: over the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes, respectively.
                     57: .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
                     58: If the load average was unobtainable, \-1 is returned; otherwise,
                     59: the number of samples actually retrieved is returned.
                     60: .Sh SEE ALSO
                     61: .Xr uptime 1 ,
1.7       mikel      62: .Xr sysctl 3 ,
1.5       cgd        63: .Xr kvm_getloadavg 3
1.1       cgd        64: .Sh HISTORY
                     65: The
                     66: .Fn getloadavg
1.5       cgd        67: function appeared in
                     68: .Bx 4.3 Reno .

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