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What is the definition for Jobs in 5 minutes / System load ?

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What is the definition for Jobs in 5 minutes / System load ?

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The definition of JOB means, the system load average. The term system load in UNIX computing term describes the amount of work that a computer system is doing. The load average is the system load over a period of time. An idle computer has a load number of 0. Each process that is using CPU, waiting for CPU or is in uninterruptable sleep (usually waiting for disk activity) adds 1 to the load number. The load average is calculated as the exponentially damped moving average of the load number. The three values of load average refer to the past one, five, and fifteen minutes of system operation.

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