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:I think the problem is that each UNIXoid operating system will use different terms. For example, on Linux your jobs are called "tasks".
 
 
don't know about you, guys, but wherever I found the word "job" before (related to something to be executed by a computer, that is)
it referred to a batch file containing some non-interactive stuff to be done in a certain sequence (series or parallel or both).
A job usually contains more processes and has nothing to do with the load average we are talking about here.
 
== Load Average on non-*nix systems ==