tload(1)

tload1

Graphic representation of system load average

Usage

tload [option ...] [tty]

Overview

tload prints a graph of the current system load average to the specified tty (or the tty of the tload process if none is specified).

Options

-s, --scale number

The scale option allows a vertical scale to be specified for the display (in characters between graph ticks); thus, a smaller value represents a larger scale, and vice versa.

-d, --delay seconds

The delay sets the delay between graph updates in seconds.

-h, --help

Display this help text.

-V, --version

Display version information and exit.

Files

/proc/loadavg load average information

Releases

19 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 8 times.

  1. 1.1–1.3
  2. 2.0–2.1
  3. 2.2–3.0
  4. 3.1
  5. 4.0–6.0
  6. 7–10
  7. 11–12
  8. 13
  9. Arch

--delay since Debian 7 (Wheezy); --help since Debian 7 (Wheezy); --scale since Debian 7 (Wheezy); --version since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -V since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -d since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -h since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -s since Debian 7 (Wheezy).

Bugs

The -d delay option sets the time argument for an alarm(2); if -d 0 is specified, the alarm is set to 0, which will never send the SIGALRM and update the display.

Authors

Branko Lankester, David Engel ⟨david@\:ods.\:com⟩, and Michael K. Johnson ⟨johnsonm@\:redhat.\:com⟩.

Reporting bugs

Please send bug reports to ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From procps-ng 4.0.7-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.