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[Matt Pounsett]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Serveur-Faucon Surveillance wrote:

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

Load Average represents the average number of processes in the run queue
during that period.. typically this is reported with a last-1-minute average,
last-5-minutes average, and last-15-minutes average.

This is a very different statistic from CPU utilization.

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