stupid question

FRamsay at castelhq.com FRamsay at castelhq.com
Fri Jan 24 14:23:56 EST 2003


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?

                  -fjr

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