TLOAD(1)

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💖 TLOAD(1) — bestie edition 💖

okay so picture this: it's tload, from the General Commands Manual section (section 1, the iconic one), and it's here to give you a graphic representation of system load average. yes, a graph. in your terminal. in 2020-adjacent energy. we're so back.

✨ NAME ✨

tload — graphic representation of system load average 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tload [option ...] [tty]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here's the tea: tload prints a graph of the current system load average, and it prints it to the specified tty. that's the whole vibe. 📈

and if you don't hand it a tty? no worries bestie, it just uses the tty of the tload process itself. main character energy, it does it for you. 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -s, --scale number — this one lets you set a vertical scale for the display, measured in characters between graph ticks. and listen, the logic is lowkey inverted: a smaller value means a larger scale, and vice versa. yes it's giving chaotic but that's just how it is. 🔥
  • -d, --delay seconds — sets the delay between graph updates, in seconds. how often the lil graph refreshes. periodt. ⏱️
  • -h, --help — display this help text. that's it, that's the option. 🙈
  • -V, --version — display version information and exit. bye bestie 👋

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • /proc/loadavg — load average information

like, that's where the numbers come from. the source. the origin story. ⭐

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

ps(1), top(1), uptime(1), w(1)

the whole friend group honestly. go say hi. 👑

💀 BUGS 💀

okay so this is the part where we get real. the -d delay option sets the time argument for an alarm(2). and if you specify -d 0? the alarm is set to 0, which will never send the SIGALRM and update the display. 😭

so like... it just sits there. never updating. forever. not me setting -d 0 and wondering why nothing moves 💀 don't do it, or do, but know what you're doing.

🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

Branko Lankester, David Engel, and Michael K. Johnson.

the founding mothers/fathers of this whole situation. absolute icons. 🫶

📬 REPORTING BUGS 📬

Please send bug reports to procps@freelists.org.

like genuinely, if something's broken, tell them. they wanna know. 💜

and that's the whole page bestie — brought to you by procps-ng, dated 2020-06-04, and filed under TLOAD(1) ✨ no cap, go graph that load average. 🎀🦋💖

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