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load average is a measure used to tell how busy the CPU is. load average show the average number of processes waiting for execution. Usually there are three numbers presented where the first show average last minute, second average for last five minutes and the third show average load for the last fifteen minutes.

Show your computer's load average with the commands uptime or top.


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