From: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: proc/locaavg definition
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 03:14:57 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2cd57c90050303111464725932@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050303023650.63056ad1.akpm@osdl.org>
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 02:36:50 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com> 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.
This refects the forking activity. How `heavy' the load is.
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Coywolf Qi Hunt
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2005-03-03 9:04 proc/locaavg definition David Lang
2005-03-03 10:36 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-03 17:29 ` David Lang
2005-03-03 19:14 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt [this message]
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