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Uptime script
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 3:12 pm
by Viktoorr
What does the last three series of numbers mean? (Underlined)
16:08 up 3 days, 22:54, 1 user, load averages: 1.79 2.36 2.51
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:17 pm
by xpander
Those numbers are your system load averages which show, um, the load that has been on your processor(s). You can see the same numbers when you use the "top" command in the terminal.
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 7:18 pm
by evands
My %_uptime just shows the actual uptime rather than all that other info. Maybe that's just in 0.8svn, though
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:19 pm
by xpander
my original uptime script that i submitted only showed the actual uptime..
Re: Uptime script
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 12:31 am
by dchoby98
Viktoorr wrote:What does the last three series of numbers mean? (Underlined)
16:08 up 3 days, 22:54, 1 user, load averages: 1.79 2.36 2.51
The numbers mean how much load has been on your processor during different time intervals. The 1.79 is either the last 1 second (Mac OS X) or 1 minute (many other UNIXes). The next two are 5 and 10 seconds, or 5 and 10 minutes, respectively.
It is actually a measure of demand on the processor vs. how much the processor can actually do. So, a load above 1 means that your processor is being asked to do more than it can at once. That's not really bad, but
in the long run (i.e. load well above 1 for a long time) it's an indicator that something is overworking your machine.