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| author | Luis Garces-Erice <lge@ieee.org> | 2009-12-06 18:30:44 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-12-09 18:59:52 -0800 |
| commit | e3cc2226e99cfadbf300dde892c4a16d742a0856 (patch) | |
| tree | 88eb2361112f7147d11ccc04e3a511edd7a51078 /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
| parent | bfc9dcabd513334c1d888ab66f7b7d84a3159571 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-e3cc2226e99cfadbf300dde892c4a16d742a0856.tar.gz lwn-e3cc2226e99cfadbf300dde892c4a16d742a0856.zip | |
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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 4af0018533f2..94b9f2056f4c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1089,8 +1089,8 @@ The "processes" line gives the number of processes and threads created, which 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. |