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diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 index 3da438ec4b..96ac457093 100644 --- a/man5/proc.5 +++ b/man5/proc.5 @@ -227,21 +227,6 @@ hierarchy. .\" Added in Linux 2.6.9 .\" CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS .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. -.TP .I /proc/locks This file shows current file locks .RB ( flock "(2) and " fcntl (2)) diff --git a/man5/proc_loadavg.5 b/man5/proc_loadavg.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..eff023b27c --- /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 (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) |