MIPS M/120: what's the nlist symbol for cpu time?
William J. Earl
wje at orac
Thu Jul 6 04:53:45 AEST 1989
In article <397 at indri.primate.wisc.edu>, bin at primate (Brain in Neutral) writes:
>
> On a VAX, you can nlist "_cp_time" to get the info necessary to grab
> cpu time state info from a running system. What's the symbol for
> doing this on a MIPS M/120 (running RISC/os 4.0)? Do you use "sysinfo"
> and calculate the offset of the cpu field within a struct sysinfo?
Yes, use the "cpu" field of "sysinfo" in place of the "_cp_time"
array. Note, however, that the number and numeric order of the CPU
states is different in RISC/os 4.0 than in 4.3 BSD. (There five states
in RISC/os, namely, in order, "idle", "user", "system", "wait", and
"sxbrk".)
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