Re: [ILUG] Updatedb

From: Lars Hecking (lhecking at domain nmrc.ucc.ie)
Date: Thu 15 Apr 1999 - 12:07:30 IST

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> just curious, how is the load actually calculated?

 According the perfmeter man page: Average number of runnable processes
 over the last minute.

 According the uptime (which gives you three values) man page:
 the average number of jobs in the run queue over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes.

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