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an operating-system utility library. Some methods are wrappers of Node libraries and others are calculation made by the module.
One line instaltion with npm.
npm install os-utils
Then in your code
var os = require('os-utils');
os.cpuUsage(function(v){
console.log( 'CPU Usage (%): ' + v );
});
os.cpuFree(function(v){
The follwoing methods are available:
os.cpuUsage( callback );
os.cpuFree( callback );
os.platform();
os.countCPUs()
os.freemem()
os.totalmem()
os.freememPercentage()
os.sysUptime();
os.processUptime()
os.loadavg(1)
os.loadavg(5)
os.loadavg(15)
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an operating-system utility library
The npm package os-utils receives a total of 30,474 weekly downloads. As such, os-utils popularity was classified as popular.
We found that os-utils demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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