Using ps to do this is unreliable — a process’ arguments can contain newlines. A better alternative on Linux is to use /proc/loadavg like so:
awk ‘{ gsub(“[0-9]+/”, “”) ; print $4 }’ /proc/loadavg
ps and loadavg
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Using ps to do this is unreliable — a process’ arguments can contain newlines. A better alternative on Linux is to use /proc/loadavg like so:
awk ‘{ gsub(“[0-9]+/”, “”) ; print $4 }’ /proc/loadavg