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| author |   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> | 2021-02-21 19:47:29 -0800 |
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| committer |   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2021-02-22 13:56:11 -0700 |
| commit | 93ea4a0b8fce5c6496e58a6392714469cef864db (patch) | |
| tree | 032a2ac23e8db5c92bc44190485f0703524626ee /Documentation | |
| parent | docs: kernel-hacking: be more civil (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-93ea4a0b8fce5c6496e58a6392714469cef864db.tar.xz linux-dev-93ea4a0b8fce5c6496e58a6392714469cef864db.zip | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index 9abdba17565e..604567813482 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -691,6 +691,10 @@ files are there, and which are missing. 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 |