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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-08-17 22:47:16 +0200
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-08-17 23:12:31 +0200
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proc*.5: Make sashimi
[Merge tag 'proc-sashimi-v1' of <git://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git>] proc(5) was a huge page, which was quite hard to maintain, extend, read, and refer to. Split the page into small pages for the different directories and files within /proc. Some pages are still too large (e.g., proc_sys(5)), and will some day be split even more. This split keeps the contents of the original page, without modifying anything; not even the formatting. The only thing that has been modified in this patches, is that directories are consistently represented with a trailing slash. For the file name of the pages, we've used the name of the interface (e.g., /proc/pid/), removing the leading and trailing '/'s and then translating the remaining ones as `tr / _` (e.g., proc_pid.5). The title of the pages (TH) is consistent with this. The NAME of the pages, however, is the actual path name of the interfaces. The man page references have not been updated, as that was a more complex and tedious work, so I expect that they'll be slowly updated as we and users find out. Link: <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/e3a5bc09-e835-9819-4aaa-12959495ac59@kernel.org/T/> Acked-by: Oskari Pirhonen <xxc3ncoredxx@gmail.com> Acked-by: Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com> Acked-by: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> Cc: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@Shaw.ca> Cc: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de> Cc: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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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_loadavg 5 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
+.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)