Documented in Volume 1 of the UNIX Programmers Manual.
% uptime
will produce a concise look at the system usage since the host machine's
last boot, like this:
11:11am up 1 day, 19:24, 34 users, load average: 4.78, 4.49, 4.53
The load average numbers give the number of jobs in the run queue
averaged over 1, 5 and 15 minutes.
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