Questions about "uptime"

Hi everybody. A curiosity, nothing more.
I used the command

uptime

which gave me following result:

 uptime
 attivo da  4:40pm   2:16,  3 users,  load average: 0,04, 0,15, 0,26

So I wanted to know who these 3 where and found 3 times user “me”.
So, does this mean I have three sessions running in parallel? Or does this mean that I as a user am running three threads? I ask this because I have much more programs running then only 3.
Anybody able to explain me what that means?

user@linux-xxxx:~> users
user user user

where user would be me of course.
Thanks in advance.

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Wildly guessing… the shells you have open counted. For example, I have
my GUI login and I always have three shells open (in tabs in konsole on
its own dedicated workspace) and I show up four times.

Good luck.

On 11/14/2010 09:06 AM, stakanov wrote:
>
> Hi everybody. A curiosity, nothing more.
> I used the command
> Code:
> --------------------
> uptime
> --------------------
>
> which gave me following result:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> uptime
> attivo da 4:40pm 2:16, 3 users, load average: 0,04, 0,15, 0,26
>
> --------------------
>
> So I wanted to know who these 3 where and found 3 times user “me”.
> So, does this mean I have three sessions running in parallel? Or does
> this mean that I as a user am running three threads? I ask this because
> I have much more programs running then only 3.
> Anybody able to explain me what that means?
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> user@linux-xxxx:~> users
> user user user
>
> --------------------
>
> where user would be me of course.
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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Confirmed, uptime shows 3 users. After that I opened 2 new shells and now
uptime shows 5.

Thanks, good to know. Would have never guessed.
So I suppose: GUI, Yakuake, and sth. else. Will try to find out precisely.
Have a nice day.