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From: TLI%Sargas@USC-OBERON.ARPA (Tony Li)
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Subject: Re: Interpreting the Load Average
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The load average is the number of compute bound processes (excluding
NULL) averaged over a certain amount of time.  With LAVDRIVER, the
numbers from left to right are the 1-minute, 5-minute, and 15-minute
averages.

Cheers,
Tony ;-)
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