Re: proc/locaavg definition

[David Lang]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:

> David Lang <david.lang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > from what I have been able to find under /Documentation /proc/loadavg is
> >  defined as giving three loadaverage numbers, 1 min, 5 min, 15 min.
> >
> >  however as of 2.6.5ish timeframe there are a coupld of additional colums
> >  that do not appear to be documented
> >
> >  the first is something #/# that could be # of running processes/total # of
> >  processes, but I can't find a definition of this anywhere
>
> 	number of currently ready-to-run threads
> 	/
> 	total number of threads in the machine
> 	the pid of the most-recently-created thread.
>
> No idea why the last one is there.

Thanks


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