Re: Uptime

[Gordon Fraser <gordon@freakzone.net>]

Andrew Pritchard (andrew@teppic.co.uk) wrote:
> >From the Man page:
>    uptime  gives a one line display of the following informa­tion.
>    The current time, how long the system has been run­ning, how 
>    many users are currently logged on, and the sys­tem load 
>    averages for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes.
> 
> What exactly does the 'load averages' mean? Is it the CPU time?

It's the average number of processes ready to run in the last 1,5,15
minutes

Gordon

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