Finding the Load Average

The uptime command can be used to search the load average. That command tells how long the system has to been running.

It provides a one line display of the given information: the current time, the duration for that the system has been running, the number of users who are presently logged on and the system load averages for the previous 1, 5 and 15 minutes. The -V denotes the version number of the command.

Practice 

The given example displays the usage of the uptime command.

# uptime

2:06pm  up 1 min,  1 user, load average: 0.65, 0.20, 0.05

0.62 for 1minutes

0.20 for 5 minutes

0.05 for 15 minutes