#!/usr/bin/python
import math, time
fd = open("/proc/loadavg", "r")
while 1:
        fd.seek(0);
        raiseAlert = 0
        try:
                oavg=math.fabs(float(fd.read(4)))
        except ValueError,err:
                print "Error reading average load"
        print oavg
        time.sleep(1)