Re: [tlug] load average as reported by uptime

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:59:44 +0900, "Jean-Christian Imbeault"
<jean_christian@example.com> wrote to tlug@example.com:

> # uptime
>   6:42pm  up 82 days,  2:37,  1 user,  load average: 0.12, 0.09, 0.09
> # ps -aux | wc -l
>     362
> 
> I can't quite believe that with 362 processup the load average over the
> last minute was only 0.12 ... that would mean less than one process per
> minute was active ...

How many of those 362 processes are sleeping? The load average only counts
those that aren't.

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