From 50843e55f542e74c7cc0eb1e94170fa2546a8427 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antoni Sawicki <tenox@google.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 00:07:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] added load avg example

---
 README.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 34c2442..efb1518 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ sar -r 1 | perl -lane 'BEGIN{$|=1} print "@F[5]"' | ttyplot -s 100 -t "memory us
 vmstat -n 1 | perl -lane 'BEGIN{$|=1} print "@F[0,1]"' | ttyplot -2 -t "procs in R and D state"
 ```
 
+### load average via uptime and awk
+```
+{ while true; do uptime | gawk '{ gsub(/,/, ""); print $(NF-2) }'; sleep 1; done } | ttyplot -t "load average" -s load
+```
+
 ### ping plot with sed
 ```
 ping 8.8.8.8 | sed -u 's/^.*time=//g; s/ ms//g' | ttyplot -t "ping to 8.8.8.8" -u ms