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[zman <zman AT gibbon.kungfumonkey.com>]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Tony Spencer wrote:
> 8 days is indeed nothing to brag about.  I rebooted the box 8 days ago
> because I was testing a firewall! 
> 
> I was referring to the load average.

11:39am  up 55 day(s), 23:11,  2 users,  load average: 0.34, 0.23, 0.12
11:37am  up 55 day(s), 23:16,  5 users,  load average: 1.55, 1.22, 0.78
11:58am  up 39 days, 23:27,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
11:28:12  up 14 days, 18:42,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
11:40am  up 74 days,  3:05, 13 users,  load average: 1.24, 1.16, 1.11
12:35pm  up 144 days, 22:55,  1 user,  load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01

just for a few... mixture of Sun, Intel, and Apple... So please don't be 
so impressed with your load average... and these are all production 
machines...

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