Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:16:58 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@designaproduct.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: interpreting uptime output Message-ID: <20070329181658.GB55191@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <460BFEC1.2060901@designaproduct.biz> References: <460BFEC1.2060901@designaproduct.biz>
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 08:00:33PM +0200, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > From the manual: > >NAME > > uptime -- show how long system has been running > > > >SYNOPSIS > > uptime > > > >DESCRIPTION > > The uptime utility displays the current time, the length of time > >the sys- > > tem has been up, the number of users, and the load average of the > >system > > over the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes. > This is great, except that it does not tell me what "0.5" means? Example: > > 1:41PM up 5 days, 2:22, 4 users, load averages: 0.36, 0.42, 0.51 > > The only referenced material in the man page is w(1) which tells this: > > > The load average numbers give the number of jobs in the run queue > averaged over 1, 5 and 15 minutes. > > What are those "jobs"? I guess they are not processes. What is that "run > queue"? Which is better, the lower or the higher number? They are processes waiting to be run and/or currently running. Most things pop in and out so quickly that they are hardly noticable. But their bits of time add up. ////jerry > > Thanks, > > Laszlo > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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