>     This run started at "Tue Sep 30 02:53:46"
> 
>     date && ps u && uptime
>     Thu Oct  2 12:37:50 EDT 2003
>     USER     PID %CPU %MEM VSZ  RSS TT STAT STARTED       TIME COMMAND
>     current 4848 99.0  1.9 132 1268 p1 RN   Tue02AM 3457:08.20 ./qsafe 64
>     ...
>     12:37PM  up 5 days,  3:16, 3 users, load averages: 1.07, 1.08, 1.08
> 
>     The 3457 minutes (57.62 hours) seems to be fairly close to what I'd 
>     expect by the clock (57.7 hours).
> 
>     Does this really mean that although the %CPU is at 99, the load 
>     average is miniscule 1%?
> 

A load average of 1.00 means that on average (over the relevant time 
interval) 1 job was always runnable.  Hence a load average of 4 means that 
on average 4 jobs were runnable all the time.

R.