oracular (5) proc_loadavg.5.gz

NAME

       /proc/loadavg - load average

DESCRIPTION

       /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 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.

SEE ALSO

       proc(5)