From: Randy Dunlap Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 03:47:29 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Documentation: proc.rst: add more about the 6 fields in loadavg X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=93ea4a0b8fce5c6496e58a6392714469cef864db;p=linux.git 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 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210222034729.22350-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index 9abdba17565e6..604567813482d 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