On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:21:45PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> Could I just point out that top redraws the screen every 3 seconds, and 
> the first set of data that you see is historical - and may be an average 
> of many days. From the first redraw on is current information.

except for the load average top does not display any averages.
and the load average is clearly defined as the last 1, 5 and 15
minutes.

the rest of the data is always current.

greetings, martin.
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