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loads.d(1m)                                     USER COMMANDS                                    loads.d(1m)



NAME
       loads.d - print load averages. Uses DTrace.

SYNOPSIS
       loads.d

DESCRIPTION
       These  are the same load averages that the "uptime" command prints.  The purpose of this script is to
       demonstrate fetching these values from the DTrace language.

       The first field is the 1 minute average, the second is the 5 minute, and the third is the  15  minute
       average.  The  value  represents the average number of runnable threads in the system, a value higher
       than your CPU (core/hwthread) count may be a sign of CPU saturation.

       Since this uses DTrace, only users with root privileges can run this command.

EXAMPLES
       Print load averages,
              # loads.d


DOCUMENTATION
       See the DTraceToolkit for further documentation under the Docs directory. The DTraceToolkit docs  may
       include full worked examples with verbose descriptions explaining the output.

AUTHOR
       Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia]

SEE ALSO
       uptime(1), dtrace(1M)




version 0.90                                    Jun 10, 2005                                     loads.d(1m)

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