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7 .TH proc_loadavg 5 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
9 /proc/loadavg \- load average
13 The first three fields in this file are load average figures
14 giving the number of jobs in the run queue (state R)
15 or waiting for disk I/O (state D) averaged over 1, 5, and 15 minutes.
16 They are the same as the load average numbers given by
19 The fourth field consists of two numbers separated by a slash (/).
20 The first of these is the number of currently runnable kernel
21 scheduling entities (processes, threads).
22 The value after the slash is the number of kernel scheduling entities
23 that currently exist on the system.
24 The fifth field is the PID of the process that was most
25 recently created on the system.