uptime(1)

uptime1

Show how long system has been running

Usage

uptime

Overview

The uptime utility displays the current time, the length of time the system has been up, the number of users, and the load average of the system over the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes. This is the first line from w(1).

Releases

61 releases since OpenBSD 2.1; the text changed 9 times.

  1. 2.1–2.5
  2. 2.6
  3. 2.7
  4. 2.8
  5. 2.9–3.0
  6. 3.1–3.3
  7. 3.4–3.7
  8. 3.8–4.1
  9. 4.2–6.2
  10. 6.3–8.0

-M until OpenBSD 3.7; -N until OpenBSD 3.7.

History

The uptime command appeared in 3.0BSD.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.