[Gllug] Getting to the bottom of top

[Dylan]

Hi All,

I get this at the top of top:

top - 12:43:15 up  3:43,  5 users,  load average: 2.41, 2.60, 2.38
Tasks: 106 total,   1 running, 103 sleeping,   0 stopped,   2 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.7% us,  1.7% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id, 96.0% wa,  0.7% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    964332k total,   480992k used,   483340k free,     7648k buffers
Swap:  2104504k total,      112k used,  2104392k free,   195696k cached

The majority of that is self explanatory, except: what's the difference 
between the load average values? And the first 2 values for cpu are user and 
system load, but what are the others? Especially the wa figure?

Cheers 

Dylan
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