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diff --git a/man5/proc_loadavg.5 b/man5/proc_loadavg.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fba6603 --- /dev/null +++ b/man5/proc_loadavg.5 @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +.\" 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_loadavg 5 2023-08-15 "Linux man-pages 6.7" +.SH NAME +/proc/loadavg \- load average +.SH DESCRIPTION +.TP +.I /proc/loadavg +The first three fields in this file are load average figures +giving the number of jobs in the run queue (state R) +or waiting for disk I/O (state D) averaged over 1, 5, and 15 minutes. +They are the same as the load average numbers given by +.BR uptime (1) +and other programs. +The fourth field consists of two numbers separated by a slash (/). +The first of these is the number of currently runnable kernel +scheduling entities (processes, threads). +The value after the slash is the number of kernel scheduling entities +that currently exist on the system. +The fifth field is the PID of the process that was most +recently created on the system. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR proc (5) |