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From: amoss@batata.BITNET (Amos Shapira)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: JOVE load average question
Message-ID: <8801171332.AA07218@batata.Huji.AC.IL>
Date: 17 Jan 88 13:32:39 GMT
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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

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