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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:54:20 +0000
From: "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>
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Subject: Re: /proc/loadavg
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On 27/02/2008, Jeff Fulmer wrote:
> I installed procps in the hopes of getting 1,5,15 minute load averages. I
>  have them, but the values to meet my expectations. No matter how much load
>  the system is under, the values are always 0.0 0.0 0.0 Are load averages
>  supported? Is there something I need to do in order to set them up?

From the source:
	/*
	 * not really supported - Windows doesn't keep track of these values
	 * Windows 95/98/me does have the KERNEL/CPUUsage performance counter
	 * which is similar.
	 */

To my knowledge there are no kernel counters on Windows
NT/2000/XP/Vista from which we could get these values.

Regards,
Chris

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