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I Love Linux

$ uptime
20:20:56 up 434 days, 15:31, 2 users, load average: 2.32, 0.89, 0.53

This entry was posted on 10/08/2009 (Monday) at 7:24 pm and is filed under Open Source, Platforms. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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© Gary Sherman 2010.

4 Comments   »

• Steven Citron-Pousty says:

  10.08.09 at 20:38

  What are you doing that your load is at 2.32?
  Do you never patch your kernel?
• Gary says:

  11.08.09 at 05:09

  Using uptime seems to spike the load. Looking at it with ‘w’ shows a more normal CPU usage.

  I upgrade the kernel depending on a server’s configuration, deployment, and security environment.
• Daniel Morissette says:

  11.08.09 at 16:14

  Linux is great indeed!

  $ w
  01:05:04 up 531 days, 21:39, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.24, 0.16

  And for the skeptics: No, it’s not a box sitting in a corner… 1.3 TB worth of maps and other dynamic content served:

  $ /sbin/ifconfig
  eth0 …
  RX bytes:297914406573 (277.4 GiB) TX bytes:1522101949283 (1.3 TiB)
  …
• dimi says:

  04.10.09 at 22:32

  give us a link or url to explore.

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