NAME

Sys::CpuLoad - retrieve system load averages

VERSION

version 0.20

SYNOPSIS

use Sys::CpuLoad 'load';
print '1 min, 5 min, 15 min load average: ',
      join(',', load()), "\n";

DESCRIPTION

This module retrieves the 1 minute, 5 minute, and 15 minute load average of a machine.

EXPORTS

load

This method returns the load average for 1 minute, 5 minutes and 15 minutes as an array.

On Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD systems, it will make a call to getloadavg.

If /proc/loadavg is available, it will attempt to parse the file.

Otherwise, it will attempt to parse the output of uptime.

On error, it will return an array of undef values.

SEE ALSO

Sys::CpuLoadX

SOURCE

The development version is on github at https://github.com/robrwo/Sys-CpuLoad and may be cloned from git://github.com/robrwo/Sys-CpuLoad.git

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://github.com/robrwo/Sys-CpuLoad/issues

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHORS

• Robert Rothenberg <rrwo@cpan.org>

• Clinton Wong <clintdw@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTOR

Vincent Lefèvre <vincent@vinc17.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 1999-2002, 2020 by Clinton Wong <clintdw@cpan.org>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.