On Monday 22 September 2003 12:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ricardo's signature wrote this in a message on Saturday morning (00:50:14):
> =-=-=
> Sat, 20 Sep 2003 00:45:00 -0300
>  00:45:00 up 2 days, 13:35,  3 users,  load average: 1.86, 1.72, 1.37
> =-=-=
> What is this load average?  I thought that it was a percentage of CPU use,
>  but then he's at 186%, so that's obviously wrong (unless he typed this as
>  a joke . . .).  Also, what are the other 2 values?  They seem related to
>  the first, I'm thinking [avg last minute], [avg last hour]
>
> Curiously,
> Max

From "man uptime"

uptime gives a one line display of the following information.  The cur-
rent time, how long the system has been running,  how  many  users  are
currently  logged  on,  and the system load averages for the past 1, 5,
and 15 minutes.

HTHs! :-)

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