load average question...

[Serveur-Faucon Surveillance]

Hi all,

I have a little question relating the load average command.
For example this string... 
 L.C.Load CRITICAL 2003-10-02 14:08:27 0d 0h 10m 36s 4/4 CRITICAL - load average: 8.07, 6.42, 4.82

is load average : 8.07, etc...

What do these number are suppose te represent? For example, in Windows, it is in %. So the cpu utilisation is 56% for example.

Thanks people.

Alex

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Alexandre Racine
Laval-Montréal, Québec, Canada



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