06-29-2016
Hi Aia,
The reason I use uptime instead of /proc/loadavg because I wish to use same coding for Solaris, I see the Solaris uptime same as mine SUSE.
So any idea why the calculation showing error?
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
uptime
uptime(1) User Commands uptime(1)
NAME
uptime - show how long the system has been up
SYNOPSIS
uptime
DESCRIPTION
The uptime command prints the current time, the length of time the system has been up, and the average number of jobs in the run queue over
the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. It is, essentially, the first line of a w(1) command.
EXAMPLES
Below is an example of the output uptime provides:
example% uptime
10:47am up 27 day(s), 50 mins, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.26, 0.20
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|Availability SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
SEE ALSO
w(1), who(1), whodo(1M), attributes(5)
NOTES
who -b gives the time the system was last booted.
SunOS 5.11 18 Mar 1994 uptime(1)