Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
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..
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
