[Gllug] Getting to the bottom of top

[Progga]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:47:57PM +0100, Dylan wrote:
> 
> 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? 

1st load average: load for the last 1 minute
2nd load average: load for the last 5 minutes
3rd load average: load for the last 15 minutes

Source: http://www.teamquest.com/resources/gunther/display/5/index.htm

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