Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:30:44 -0800 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | [PATCH 5/6] docs: better explanation of procs_running |
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From: Luis Garces-Erice <lge@ieee.org> Subject: Doc: better explanation of procs_running
the description in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt of the procs_running entry in /proc/stat is confusing (according to that description, it looks as if procs_running could only be a number between 0 and the number of CPUs).
Changed it to a more accurate description in the patch attached.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> --- Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- lnx-2632-rc6.orig/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ lnx-2632-rc6/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1088,8 +1088,8 @@ The "processes" line gives the number o includes (but is not limited to) those created by calls to the fork() and clone() system calls. -The "procs_running" line gives the number of processes currently running on -CPUs. +The "procs_running" line gives the total number of threads that are +running or ready to run (i.e., the total number of runnable threads). The "procs_blocked" line gives the number of processes currently blocked, waiting for I/O to complete.
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