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(System Environment): Clean up text for load-average errors.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:27:15 +0000 |
| parents | 3832b88b0957 |
| children | 1a5c50faf357 |
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| 794 By default, the values are integers that are 100 times the system load | 794 By default, the values are integers that are 100 times the system load |
| 795 averages, which indicate the average number of processes trying to run. | 795 averages, which indicate the average number of processes trying to run. |
| 796 If @var{use-float} is non-@code{nil}, then they are returned | 796 If @var{use-float} is non-@code{nil}, then they are returned |
| 797 as floating point numbers and without multiplying by 100. | 797 as floating point numbers and without multiplying by 100. |
| 798 | 798 |
| 799 An error is thrown if the load average can't be obtained. In some | 799 If it is impossible to obtain the load average, this function signals |
| 800 cases making it work would require Emacs being installed setuid or | 800 an error. On some platforms, access to load averages requires |
| 801 setgid so that it can read kernel information, and that usually isn't | 801 installing Emacs as setuid or setgid so that it can read kernel |
| 802 advisable. | 802 information, and that usually isn't advisable. |
| 803 | 803 |
| 804 @example | 804 @example |
| 805 @group | 805 @group |
| 806 (load-average) | 806 (load-average) |
| 807 @result{} (169 48 36) | 807 @result{} (169 48 36) |