2.9BSD/usr/man/cat2/gldav.2

GLDAV(2)            UNIX Programmer's Manual             GLDAV(2)

NAME
     gldav - get load average

SYNOPSIS
     gldav(svec)
     short svec[3];

DESCRIPTION
     _G_l_d_a_v returns the load average on the system in internal
     format.  The only routine which should call _g_l_d_a_v is
     _l_o_a_d_a_v(3).  All user programs should call _l_o_a_d_a_v(3), which
     translates the vector into a reasonable format.

     The three numbers returned are the contents of the kernel
     variable _a_v_e_n_r_u_n.  This variable contains the 1, 5, and 15
     minute load averages in a psuedo-floating point format.  The
     leftmost 8 bits are to the left of the decimal point, the
     rightmost 8 bits are to the right.

ERRORS
     _G_l_d_a_v will fail if:

     [EFAULT]            _S_v_e_c points to an address not in the
                         process's allocated address space.

SEE ALSO
     la(1), w(1), loadav(3)

ASSEMBLER
     (local = 58., gldav = 14.)
     (address of vec in r0)
     sys local; 9f
     . . .
     .data
     9: sys gldav

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