# proc_loadavg - man(5) - [phpMan]

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## 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)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/uptime/1/markdown)  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)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/proc/5/markdown)

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