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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000 |
commit | 3d08cd331c1adcf0d917392f7e527b3f00511748 (patch) | |
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parent | Adding debian version 6.7-2. (diff) | |
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Merging upstream version 6.8.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/man/man5/proc_stat.5 b/man/man5/proc_stat.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3fe4c6f --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man5/proc_stat.5 @@ -0,0 +1,140 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@yggdrasil.com> +.\" Copyright (C) 2002-2008, 2017, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" Copyright (C) 2023, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later +.\" +.TH proc_stat 5 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +/proc/stat \- kernel system statistics +.SH DESCRIPTION +.TP +.I /proc/stat +kernel/system statistics. +Varies with architecture. +Common +entries include: +.RS +.TP +.I cpu 10132153 290696 3084719 46828483 16683 0 25195 0 175628 0 +.TQ +.I cpu0 1393280 32966 572056 13343292 6130 0 17875 0 23933 0 +The amount of time, measured in units of +USER_HZ (1/100ths of a second on most architectures, use +.I sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) +to obtain the right value), +.\" 1024 on Alpha and ia64 +that the system ("cpu" line) or the specific CPU ("cpu\fIN\fR" line) +spent in various states: +.RS +.TP +.I user +(1) Time spent in user mode. +.TP +.I nice +(2) Time spent in user mode with low priority (nice). +.TP +.I system +(3) Time spent in system mode. +.TP +.I idle +(4) Time spent in the idle task. +.\" FIXME . Actually, the following info about the /proc/stat 'cpu' field +.\" does not seem to be quite right (at least in Linux 2.6.12 or Linux 3.6): +.\" the idle time in /proc/uptime does not quite match this value +This value should be USER_HZ times the +second entry in the +.I /proc/uptime +pseudo-file. +.TP +.IR iowait " (since Linux 2.5.41)" +(5) Time waiting for I/O to complete. +This value is not reliable, for the following reasons: +.\" See kernel commit 9c240d757658a3ae9968dd309e674c61f07c7f48 +.RS +.IP \[bu] 3 +The CPU will not wait for I/O to complete; +iowait is the time that a task is waiting for I/O to complete. +When a CPU goes into idle state for outstanding task I/O, +another task will be scheduled on this CPU. +.IP \[bu] +On a multi-core CPU, +the task waiting for I/O to complete is not running on any CPU, +so the iowait of each CPU is difficult to calculate. +.IP \[bu] +The value in this field may +.I decrease +in certain conditions. +.RE +.TP +.IR irq " (since Linux 2.6.0)" +.\" Precisely: Linux 2.6.0-test4 +(6) Time servicing interrupts. +.TP +.IR softirq " (since Linux 2.6.0)" +.\" Precisely: Linux 2.6.0-test4 +(7) Time servicing softirqs. +.TP +.IR steal " (since Linux 2.6.11)" +(8) Stolen time, which is the time spent in other operating systems when +running in a virtualized environment +.TP +.IR guest " (since Linux 2.6.24)" +(9) Time spent running a virtual CPU for guest +operating systems under the control of the Linux kernel. +.\" See Changelog entry for 5e84cfde51cf303d368fcb48f22059f37b3872de +.TP +.IR guest_nice " (since Linux 2.6.33)" +.\" commit ce0e7b28fb75cb003cfc8d0238613aaf1c55e797 +(10) Time spent running a niced guest (virtual CPU for guest +operating systems under the control of the Linux kernel). +.RE +.TP +\fIpage 5741 1808\fP +The number of pages the system paged in and the number that were paged +out (from disk). +.TP +\fIswap 1 0\fP +The number of swap pages that have been brought in and out. +.TP +.\" FIXME . The following is not the full picture for the 'intr' of +.\" /proc/stat on 2.6: +\fIintr 1462898\fP +This line shows counts of interrupts serviced since boot time, +for each of the possible system interrupts. +The first column is the total of all interrupts serviced +including unnumbered architecture specific interrupts; +each subsequent column is the total for that particular numbered interrupt. +Unnumbered interrupts are not shown, only summed into the total. +.TP +\fIdisk_io: (2,0):(31,30,5764,1,2) (3,0):\fP... +(major,disk_idx):(noinfo, read_io_ops, blks_read, write_io_ops, blks_written) +.br +(Linux 2.4 only) +.TP +\fIctxt 115315\fP +The number of context switches that the system underwent. +.TP +\fIbtime 769041601\fP +boot time, in seconds since the Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC). +.TP +\fIprocesses 86031\fP +Number of forks since boot. +.TP +\fIprocs_running 6\fP +Number of processes in runnable state. +(Linux 2.5.45 onward.) +.TP +\fIprocs_blocked 2\fP +Number of processes blocked waiting for I/O to complete. +(Linux 2.5.45 onward.) +.TP +.I softirq 229245889 94 60001584 13619 5175704 2471304 28 51212741 59130143 0 51240672 +.\" commit d3d64df21d3d0de675a0d3ffa7c10514f3644b30 +This line shows the number of softirq for all CPUs. +The first column is the total of all softirqs and +each subsequent column is the total for particular softirq. +(Linux 2.6.31 onward.) +.RE +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR proc (5) |