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 giv-
ing 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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