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Date:      Sat, 04 Mar 2000 12:10:39 -0500
From:      John <papalia@udel.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Uptime/Load Averages
Message-ID:  <4.1.20000304120821.0094f990@mail.udel.edu>

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Hi all -

In an ever-present quest to learn and understand, I was trying to learn
more about "load averages" as shown in uptime.  I read a quite extensive
discussion in the archives over how the load average is *calculated*, but
not exactly what it's saying.  I guess I'm wondering: is it an absolute
scale? Is the min 0 and the max 100 or some other number?  Is a load avg of
0.1 good while a load avg of 1.0 is bad? Or is it not that cut and dry?
What does knowing the load avg actually *tell* me.

Thanks in advance,
John


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