ls@dlhpedg.UUCP (01/15/88)
Can anyone tell me what the 'load-average' displayed on the jove mode line means, and what it measures. -- Les Smithson
amoss@batata.BITNET (Amos Shapira) (01/17/88)
The load avarage is the avarage number of processes that were on the systems running queue for the last minute. The system keeps the numbers for the past 1, 5 and 15 minutes. You can also see this avarage by running uptime(1). --Amos Shapira amoss%batata@relay.cs.net amoss@batata.bitnet "Super users do it without asking for permission" -- me
ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (01/19/88)
On a machine that can provide the information, the load average is the average length of the run queue (number of processes waiting to be run). Averages over three or five different intervals (depending on your UNIX system) are maintained. -Ron