stupid question

[mbrodeur at NextTime.com (Matthew J. Brodeur)]

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On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 FRamsay at castelhq.com wrote:

> what exactly to the three load average numbers in top mean?
> 
> I had assumed one was current load, and the others were average over
> different amounts of time, but what exactly are they?

   From "man top":

"The load averages are the average number of process ready to run during 
the last 1, 5  and  15 minutes."

   I _think_ that's about as simple as I've ever seen it explained, so I 
won't try to improve.

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Matthew J. Brodeur                                             RHCE, GSEC
MBrodeur at NextTime.com                             http://www.NextTime.com

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that they're not using it.


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