Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:

> Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
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>>would anyone have any thoughts about the idea of adding an
>>api to obtain the system load average?  i ask because i need
>>it for an httpd module i'm writing, and i've now got code
>>for linux, freebsd, os x, sunos, and t64u..
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> 
> no thoughts, uh.

load average is nice but it seems rather specialized and it doesn't really fit anywhere in apr[-util] that I 
see.  load average is one performance metric; I can see where it might be useful to have a common interface 
for collecting all sorts of performance metrics. For example, if Apache is being used as a load balancer, you 
could collect performance state metrics from the servers being load balanced, feed that info back to the 
apache load balancer (on an HTTP response header field, via a special purpose HTTP POST request or out of 
band) and use it in your load balancing/routing algorithms.  I just don't see that this has a place in apr or 
apr-util. Maybe a new subproject, apr-perf?

Bill