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Linux & Shell interview questions
Permissions, processes, pipes and the commands you are expected to know cold.
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- What does load average mean in top and uptime?
Load average is the average number of processes running or waiting for the CPU (and, on Linux, waiting on uninterruptible I/O) over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. Compare it with the number of CPU cores: on 4 cores, a load near 4 means fully busy.
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