Re: [PATCH -next] Documentation: proc.rst: add more about the 6 fields in loadavg

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Mon Feb 22 2021 - 15:56:53 EST


Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> 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

Applied, thanks.

jon