On Sat, 03 Jul 1999, Geoff wrote:
> This may be somewhat nonpractical, but how exactly are load averages
> calculated? I know that my load average sits at about 0.5 most of the
> time, and that higher numbers mean higher load, but how exactly is it
> calculated? CPU usage times ram used divided by pi or something? And
> also, when i run top, there are 3 numbers for load average. (Average for
> the last minute, last hour, last day?)
>
> Thanks,
> Geoff
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Geoff,
>From the command "man top":
uptime
This line displays the time the system has been up,
and the three load averages for the system. The load
averages are the average number of process ready to
run during the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. This line
is just like the output of uptime(1). The uptime
display may be toggled by the interactive l command.
Until next time... Ben
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