What are the 'uptime' load averages out of?

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I'm confused by the load averages produced by the 'uptime' command. I know it might be a stupid question but what are they out of?

(My guess is that they are out of 1)

Kristina Brooks

Posted 2010-12-19T20:28:17.490

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In short it is the average sum of the number of processes waiting in the run-queue plus the number currently executing over 1, 5, and 15 minute time periods.

This page is old but explains it well enough.

Unfundednut

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I was hoping I could graph it :( – Kristina Brooks – 2010-12-19T20:34:03.100

Actually you can with nagios. http://www.frank4dd.com/howto/nagios/nagiosgraph/check-load-cisco-graph.gif

– Unfundednut – 2010-12-19T20:40:04.210

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