proc_loadavg(5) — Linux manual page
proc_loadavg(5) File Formats Manual proc_loadavg(5)
NAME
/proc/loadavg - load average
DESCRIPTION
/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 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.
SEE ALSO
proc(5)
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