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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH -next] Documentation: proc.rst: add more about the 6 fields in loadavg
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 19:47:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210222034729.22350-1-rdunlap@infradead.org> (raw)

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>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
---
 Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- linux-next-20210219.orig/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
+++ linux-next-20210219/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

             reply	other threads:[~2021-02-22  3:48 UTC|newest]

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2021-02-22  3:47 Randy Dunlap [this message]
2021-02-22 20:56 ` Jonathan Corbet

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