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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> | 2022-09-05 23:03:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> | 2022-09-05 23:03:47 +0200 |
| commit | 70ac1c4785fc1e158ab2349a962dba2526bf4fbc (patch) | |
| tree | bff270e2496dd284bccfc1271b43946f5d225224 /man/man3/getloadavg.3 | |
| parent | 5423a6f86b2b920a5f3e8cf8d759b513050f2d33 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-70ac1c4785fc1e158ab2349a962dba2526bf4fbc.tar.gz | |
src.mk, All pages: Move man* to man/
The root of the repository is becoming a bit overpopulated and
unorganized, due to the recent addition of more mandirs, and more
informative and configuration files too. Let's create a specific
mandir <man/> that contains the mandirs <man[1-8]*>.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man/man3/getloadavg.3 b/man/man3/getloadavg.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f462d522d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man3/getloadavg.3 @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause +.\" +.\" @(#)getloadavg.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 +.\" +.\" 2007-12-08, mtk, Converted from mdoc to man macros +.\" +.TH GETLOADAVG 3 2021-03-22 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +getloadavg \- get system load averages +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <stdlib.h> +.PP +.BI "int getloadavg(double " loadavg[] ", int " nelem ); +.fi +.PP +.RS -4 +Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see +.BR feature_test_macros (7)): +.RE +.PP +.BR getloadavg (): +.nf + Since glibc 2.19: + _DEFAULT_SOURCE + In glibc up to and including 2.19: + _BSD_SOURCE +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR getloadavg () +function returns the number of processes in the system run queue +averaged over various periods of time. +Up to +.I nelem +samples are retrieved and assigned to successive elements of +.IR loadavg[] . +The system imposes a maximum of 3 samples, representing averages +over the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes, respectively. +.SH RETURN VALUE +If the load average was unobtainable, \-1 is returned; otherwise, +the number of samples actually retrieved is returned. +.\" .SH HISTORY +.\" The +.\" BR getloadavg () +.\" function appeared in +.\" 4.3BSD Reno . +.SH VERSIONS +This function is available in glibc since version 2.2. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.ad l +.nh +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.BR getloadavg () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.hy +.ad +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +Not in POSIX.1. +Present on the BSDs and Solaris. +.\" mdoc seems to have a bug - there must be no newline here +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR uptime (1), +.BR proc (5) |