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+.\" 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 2023-08-15 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
+.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)