FUNCTION::GET_LOADAV(3stap)

💖 FUNCTION::GET_LOADAV 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel Process Tapset section of the SystemTap Tapset Reference — this lil page is function::get_loadavg_index(3stap) and she is so useful, i promise 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

function::get_loadavg_index — bestie, this one grabs you the load average for a specific interval 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

get_loadavg_index:long(indx:long)

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• indx — the load average interval you wanna capture, like, the one you're asking for 💅

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so this function returns the load average at a specified interval. no cap.

here's the tea: the three load average values — the 1, 5, and 15 minute averages — correspond to indexes 0, 1, and 2 of the avenrun array. see linux/sched.h. iykyk 🌈

lowkey important: the truncated-integer portion of the load average is what gets returned. so don't come for me about decimals, bestie, they're literally not invited 💀

and fr fr, if the index you specify is out-of-bounds, then an error message and exception is thrown. so like… keep your index in range or catch those hands 🙈

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• tapset::loadavg(3stap) 💜

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie ✨ this was the SystemTap Tapset Reference, version vibes from September 2026, page FUNCTION::GET_LOADAV(3stap) — periodt 💅🌸🦋