loadst output is confusing

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From: David J. MacKenzie
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 1990 05:37

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Users seeing a display like this:

12:33am 0.11 Mail[1]

(such as I am seeing now) invariably think that it means they have 1
new mail message.  The ratio of disk activity to cpu activity (which
is itself a pretty cryptic figure of questionable usefulness) is
separated from the load average, when logically they belong together.
I suggest that the word Mail be placed after the activity ratio rather
than before, so it looks like:

12:33am 0.11[1] Mail

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Subject: loadst output is confusing
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