interpreting uptime output

[Chuck Swiger]

On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Laszlo Nagy wrote:
>> A job is a runnable process.  The run queue is a list containing  
>> the processes which are runnable at a particular time.  Lower  
>> numbers indicate lower CPU load.  From "man getloadavg":
>
> Hmm. Somebody could modify the man page of uptime and add a  
> reference to getloadavg. Do you think this would be a good  
> improvement?

Sure:

--- src/usr.bin/w/uptime.1_orig       Thu Mar 29 14:15:10 2007
+++ src/usr.bin/w/uptime.1    Thu Mar 29 14:15:32 2007
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
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.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr getloadavg 3 ,
.Xr w 1
.Sh HISTORY
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> By the way, thank you for the information. Since I have two  
> processors now I know that I do not need to worry below 2.0. :-)

You're welcome...

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-Chuck