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authorRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>2021-02-21 19:47:29 -0800
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2021-02-22 13:56:11 -0700
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Documentation: proc.rst: add more about the 6 fields in loadavg
Address Jon's feedback on the previous patch by adding info about field separators in the /proc/loadavg file. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210222034729.22350-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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number of processes currently runnable (running or on ready queue);
total number of processes in system;
last pid created.
+ All fields are separated by one space except "number of
+ processes currently runnable" and "total number of processes
+ in system", which are separated by a slash ('/'). Example:
+ 0.61 0.61 0.55 3/828 22084
locks Kernel locks
meminfo Memory info
misc Miscellaneous