avenrun algorithm

[pri=-20 Steve Paddock]

Some, apperently BSD derived or related, kernels have a symbol avenrun, 
which I believe is used to produce a load average report.  If this is not
subject to license disclosure restrictions, I'd sure like to know
what is being counted so that I can attempt to emulate it in a 
System V environment. 

The ruptime command in the WIN TCP/IP package implements this, but
only runs on machines with the net up.  I'd like to be able to 
present comparable information on 3B2's not running WIN.

Thanks,

Steve
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