At 5:58 PM -0700 10/12/99, mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
>on a 1.4.1 machine top shows:
>
>load averages:  1.11,  1.20,  1.20

This load indicates that the system is more idle than the previous 5
minutes. Whatever caused the high load appears to be gone. Try to catch it
when the first number is the highest, which means it's more likely that
whatever is taking up CPU is still doing it. All this reading means is that
the system *used* to be under high load, but the average is dropping.

>20:56:56
>77 processes:  2 running, 75 sleeping
>CPU states:  4.5% user,  0.0% nice,  4.1% system,  1.8% interrupt, 89.6%
>idle

Again, it appears that whatever caused the high load is gone.

Hope this helps..

--Doug