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(ot) What is load average?



This is certainly offtopic, but what does the following mean?

Rankor:/$ cat /proc/loadavg
2.19 1.27 0.79 1/54 1667

I know that the first three are 5, 10, and 15 minute averages, but I'm
not sure what "load" really is.

I'm curious what those numbers represent and what reasonable values
are for them... Are the CPU, memory, or IO related..? A pointer to a
doc would be cool if available...

Also, is it just me or has the debian archives search been broken for
a WHILE now? I've had to resort to deja searches on debian-user. :/

Thanks!

-Jonathan


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