$ mysqladmin status
Uptime: 767056 Threads: 235 Questions: 185825069 Slow queries: 8 Opens: 95 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 89 Queries per second avg: 242.258
$ uptime
12:20AM up 8 days, 21:03, 1 user, load averages: 0.69, 0.47, 0.45
only modified to remove the password from the mysqladmin line.
