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Originally Posted by mechmaster i kinda understand what these values mean but could someone clarify? thanx |
we'll use yours as an example.
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18:45:05 up 22:46, 2 users, load average: .42, .12, .04
first is the time. it's 18:45. next is the uptime, the amount of time your computer has been up and running. yours is almost 23 hours. 2 users means you have 2 users total on your computer. load average is hard to explain, and that's why i'll give you this link:
http://www.teamquest.com/resources/gunther/ldavg1.shtml
basically it's the number of processes competing for resources at 1, 5, and 15 minutes. so for yours, an average of 0.42 processes were competing for resources in the past 1 minute, 0.12 processes in the past 5 minutes, and 0.04 processes in the past 15 minutes. lower is better obviously - it means there's less load on the system. your load averages are relatively low. a load average of 1 means your system's a bit active, over 2 means it's pretty hard on the resources, and 3 is something you want to stay under usually.
if i still haven't answered your question let me say that high uptimes are favorable. this is usually if you're running a server. if the server has a lot of downtime there's an obvious problem, because other computers won't be able to connect to it. uptime is usually a measure of how stable your system is, especially if it's a server you intend to have on all the time. if you never had a system crash and never turned off your computer, you would have a long uptime.
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