.\" Copyright (c) 1992 The Regents of the University of California.
.\" %sccs.include.redist.man%
.\" @(#)kvm_getloadavg.3 5.1 (Berkeley) %G%
.Nd get error message on kvm descriptor
.Fd #include <sys/resource.h>
.Fn kvm_getloadavg "kvm_t *kd" "double loadavg[]" "int nelem"
function returns the number of processes in the system run queue
of the kernel indicated by
averaged over various periods of time.
samples are retrieved and assigned to successive elements of
The system imposes a maximum of 3 samples, representing averages
over the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes, respectively.
If the load average was unobtainable, \-1 is returned; otherwise,
the number of samples actually retrieved is returned.