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Counting CPUs before reading load in Linux

LinuxMonitoring & Performanceuptimeintermediate

What this snippet does

A load average of 4 is saturated on two cores and idle on sixteen, so context matters.

Expected output

8
load average: 4.12, 3.98, 3.71

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