In article <1995Oct14.131318@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (R.E. Willi
ams, Jr.) writes:
> How do you interpret the machine load readout? I know generally, but I am
> not sure exactly what is being presented....
 
 
According to the Multinet User's Guide...
 
"The load average information displayed at the beginning of the FINGER
output is the maximum, minimum, and average times of the number of
processes waiting for the CPU (in the COM, COMO, COLPGW, PFW states)."
 
I think the documentation is incorrect on this, though.  Especially since I
just tried it and it gave me the following:
 
    0.96 1.09 1.14
 
How can the maximum be less than the mimumum and the average?
 
Instead, I believe that this number is showing the CPU load over the last
5, 30, and 60 seconds where CPU load is the number of computable processes
on the system.  That would correspond to similar numbers reported by Unix
systems (with the uptime command).
 
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