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Node.js v6.0.0-nightly20160301d9f7a597e4 Documentation
Table of Contents
OS#
Stability: 2 - Stable
Provides a few basic operating-system related utility functions.
Use require('os')
to access this module.
os.EOL#
A constant defining the appropriate End-of-line marker for the operating system.
os.arch()#
Returns the operating system CPU architecture. Possible values are 'x64'
,
'arm'
and 'ia32'
. Returns the value of process.arch
.
os.cpus()#
Returns an array of objects containing information about each CPU/core installed: model, speed (in MHz), and times (an object containing the number of milliseconds the CPU/core spent in: user, nice, sys, idle, and irq).
Example inspection of os.cpus:
[ { model: 'Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz',
speed: 2926,
times:
{ user: 252020,
nice: 0,
sys: 30340,
idle: 1070356870,
irq: 0 } },
{ model: 'Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz',
speed: 2926,
times:
{ user: 306960,
nice: 0,
sys: 26980,
idle: 1071569080,
irq: 0 } },
{ model: 'Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz',
speed: 2926,
times:
{ user: 248450,
nice: 0,
sys: 21750,
idle: 1070919370,
irq: 0 } },
{ model: 'Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz',
speed: 2926,
times:
{ user: 256880,
nice: 0,
sys: 19430,
idle: 1070905480,
irq: 20 } },
{ model: 'Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz',
speed: 2926,
times:
{ user: 511580,
nice: 20,
sys: 40900,
idle: 1070842510,
irq: 0 } },
{ model: 'Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz',
speed: 2926,
times:
{ user: 291660,
nice: 0,
sys: 34360,
idle: 1070888000,
irq: 10 } },
{ model: 'Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz',
speed: 2926,
times:
{ user: 308260,
nice: 0,
sys: 55410,
idle: 1071129970,
irq: 880 } },
{ model: 'Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz',
speed: 2926,
times:
{ user: 266450,
nice: 1480,
sys: 34920,
idle: 1072572010,
irq: 30 } } ]
Note that since nice
values are UNIX centric in Windows the nice
values of
all processors are always 0.
os.endianness()#
Returns the endianness of the CPU. Possible values are 'BE'
for big endian
or 'LE'
for little endian.
os.freemem()#
Returns the amount of free system memory in bytes.
os.homedir()#
Returns the home directory of the current user.
os.hostname()#
Returns the hostname of the operating system.
os.loadavg()#
Returns an array containing the 1, 5, and 15 minute load averages.
The load average is a measure of system activity, calculated by the operating system and expressed as a fractional number. As a rule of thumb, the load average should ideally be less than the number of logical CPUs in the system.
The load average is a very UNIX-y concept; there is no real equivalent on
Windows platforms. That is why this function always returns [0, 0, 0]
on
Windows.
os.networkInterfaces()#
Get a list of network interfaces:
{ lo:
[ { address: '127.0.0.1',
netmask: '255.0.0.0',
family: 'IPv4',
mac: '00:00:00:00:00:00',
internal: true },
{ address: '::1',
netmask: 'ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff',
family: 'IPv6',
mac: '00:00:00:00:00:00',
internal: true } ],
eth0:
[ { address: '192.168.1.108',
netmask: '255.255.255.0',
family: 'IPv4',
mac: '01:02:03:0a:0b:0c',
internal: false },
{ address: 'fe80::a00:27ff:fe4e:66a1',
netmask: 'ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff::',
family: 'IPv6',
mac: '01:02:03:0a:0b:0c',
internal: false } ] }
Note that due to the underlying implementation this will only return network interfaces that have been assigned an address.
os.platform()#
Returns the operating system platform. Possible values are 'darwin'
,
'freebsd'
, 'linux'
, 'sunos'
or 'win32'
. Returns the value of
process.platform
.
os.release()#
Returns the operating system release.
os.tmpdir()#
Returns the operating system's default directory for temporary files.
os.totalmem()#
Returns the total amount of system memory in bytes.
os.type()#
Returns the operating system name. For example 'Linux'
on Linux, 'Darwin'
on OS X and 'Windows_NT'
on Windows.
os.uptime()#
Returns the system uptime in seconds.