Re: system load

[Simon Cozens <simon@example.com>]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 05:43:43PM +0900, Viktor Pavlenko wrote:
> >From xload manpage: xload - system load average display for X
> What is system load?
 
Load average is the average number of processes running in the previous (uhm,
let me try to remember) minute, five minutes and ten minutes. I think.
The higher it gets, the more work your processes are demanding, and the more
likely things are going to start swapping and thrashing.

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