On 06 Feb 2012, Andreas Herz wrote:
> On 06/02/12 at 07:35, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > Just one minor query about the internal status bar. What is the meaning
> > of the figure immediately to the left of the date? It currently reads
> > 0.00 but at times other figures appear, and gradually decline towards
> > zero. I can't see any documentation about this bar anywhere.
> 
> This is your system load :) If you use "top" you can see "load average"
> with three values which display the average load over a specific time.
> The default is 1, 5 and 15 minutes. You should also see this in your
> .i3status.conf.
> At least i guess that is what you mean.
> 
> -- 
> Andreas Herz


Thank you, yes; I'd guessed it was that but wasn't sure. And thanks for
the pointer to i3statsus.conf, which I'd missed.

Anthony

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