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Load average in Linux

LinuxMonitoring & Performanceuptimebeginner

What this snippet does

The three numbers are the one, five and fifteen minute run-queue averages.

Expected output

09:14:22 up 12 days,  4:02,  load average: 0.42, 0.51, 0.48
0.42 0.51 0.48 2/412 28414

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