On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, James Housley wrote:
> I am trying to find out the current % idle of the machine from within a
> program. I have looked at the valuse provided by sysctl and found
> loadavg but not system idle. I have also looked through the source for
> top and haven't been able to figure that out. All pointers would be
> appreciated.
Last time I needed these values (for an LCD panel driver) I just stole the
code from top. :)
It involves grubbing around in kvm and counting ticks.
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