diff --git a/README.template b/README.template
index ccbc51ab..b60ed028 100644
--- a/README.template
+++ b/README.template
@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ It has been reported that the XLC 1.2 compiler on AIX 3.2 is buggy such
 that if you compile make with `cc -O' on AIX 3.2, it will not work correctly.
 It is said that using `cc' without `-O' does work.
 
+One area that is often a problem in configuration and porting is the code
+to check the system's current load average.  To make it easier to test and
+debug this code, you can do `make check-loadavg' to see if it works
+properly on your system.  (You must run `configure' beforehand, but you
+need not build Make itself to run this test.)
+
 See the file NEWS for what has changed since previous releases.
 
 GNU Make is fully documented in make.texinfo.  See the section entitled