> That figure you get with uptime is the load average 1,5, and 15 minutes ago.
>
> I think it's the average over that time of the number of runnable tasks.
>
> On one CPU, load average of 1.0 means 100% CPU usage, but this apparently
> isn't a bad thing. It can be more efficient to be running two jobs at once
> than sequentially.
>
> I think different system architectures make a big difference in the numbers
> you get back. On my Mac OS X boxes, which use the mach_kernel, load averages
> usually sit between 2 and 3 on a light load, whereas on my linux boxes it
> rarely reaches 1.0. I think SunOS also automatically divides by the number
> of CPUs as well.
wow. if that's the case, then my box is overloaded:
[mle@localhost 23:08:11 /hdb2]$ uptime
11:08pm up 20 days, 3:06, 15 users, load average: 15.05, 15.09, 15.09
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