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uptime(1) — Linux manual page

UPTIME(1)                     User Commands                    UPTIME(1)

NAME

       uptime - Tell how long the system has been running.

SYNOPSIS

       uptime [option ...]

DESCRIPTION

       uptime gives a one line display of the following information.
       The current time, how long the system has been running, how many
       users are currently logged on, and the system load averages for
       the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes.

       This is the same information contained in the header line
       displayed by w(1).

       System load averages is the average number of processes that are
       either in a runnable or uninterruptable state.  A process in a
       runnable state is either using the CPU or waiting to use the CPU.
       A process in uninterruptable state is waiting for some I/O
       access, eg waiting for disk.  The averages are taken over the
       three time intervals.  Load averages are not normalized for the
       number of CPUs in a system, so a load average of 1 means a single
       CPU system is loaded all the time while on a 4 CPU system it
       means it was idle 75% of the time.

OPTIONS

       -c, --container
              show the container uptime instead of system uptime.

       -p, --pretty
              show uptime in pretty format

       -h, --help
              display this help text

       -r, --raw
              Display values in a raw format. Current time and uptime
              are displayed in seconds.

       -s, --since
              system up since, in yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS format

       -V, --version
              display version information and exit

ENVIRONMENT

       PROCPS_CONTAINER
              If $PROCPS_CONTAINER is set, then uptime behaves as if the
              --container option has been given.

FILES

       /var/run/utmp
              information about who is currently logged on

       /proc  process information

SEE ALSO

       ps(1), top(1), utmp(5), w(1)

REPORTING BUGS

       Please send bug reports to ⟨procps@freelists.org⟩.

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procps-ng                      2024-02-08                      UPTIME(1)

Pages that refer to this page: htop(1), pcp-uptime(1), tload(1), top(1), w(1), getloadavg(3), proc(5), proc_loadavg(5), time_namespaces(7)

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