Checking server load from ruby?

Ruby
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hi -

are there any ruby library functions for checking server load and
general system status?
or should i just use something like uptime ?

tx!

/dc

  David "DC" Collier

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sender: “dc” date: “Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:11:19PM +0900” <<<EOQ
hi -
Hello,

are there any ruby library functions for checking server load and
general system status?
or should i just use something like uptime ?
I for one just use this:
~>> irb

File.new(’/proc/loadavg’).read
=> “0.57 0.47 0.35 1/197 1862\n”

but a quick gem search reveals a gem that might be related to this:
~>> gem search -r uptime

*** REMOTE GEMS ***

sys-uptime (0.4.5, 0.4.4)
A Ruby interface for getting system uptime information.

Cheers,
Alex

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dc wrote:

hi -

are there any ruby library functions for checking server load and
general system status?
or should i just use something like uptime ?
It depends on whether you want to lock yourself into a specific OS or
not. Just out of curiosity, what’s your goal here? What will you
application do with the information?

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P)
http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/

If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given
rabbits fire.

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Hi David,

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:11:19 +0900, dc [email protected] wrote:

are there any ruby library functions for checking server load and
general system status?
or should i just use something like uptime ?

Well calling uptime will certainly work and maybe the most simple.
Although, if you are looking for an API that abstracts this a bit,
take a look at Daniel B.'s sysutils projects at:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/sysutils

Cheers,
Zev