Tim Flight

I noticed in my stats lots of people arriving at my Server uptime post searching for “uptime command how to read”. So I’ll offer that answer here. This is what the uptime command displays right now on my computer (not server).

9:37 up 2:02, 3 users, load averages: 0.13 0.22 0.16

And here is what it all means.

• 9:37 - The current, local time
• up 2:02 - The amount of time the computer has been running since startup. In this case two hours and two minutes. The counter will start counting in “days” after some time.
• 3 users - The number of users connected to the computer. In this case I was logged into the GUI and had two terminal sessions open.
• load averages: 0.13 0.22 0.16 - This is the load average of the computer. There are three values which represent the load average over the last one minute, five minutes, and fifteen minutes. My computer isn’t working very hard with those load averages well below 1.

So there it is, how to read the uptime command!

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