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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Sven Heinicke <sven@research.nj.nec.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /proc/stat description for proc.txt
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:37:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011115133734.P5739@lynx.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15347.57175.887835.525156@abasin.nj.nec.com> <20011115115939.I5739@lynx.no> <15348.8974.587924.655924@abasin.nj.nec.com>
In-Reply-To: <15348.8974.587924.655924@abasin.nj.nec.com>; from sven@research.nj.nec.com on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:18:22PM -0500

On Nov 15, 2001  15:18 -0500, Sven Heinicke wrote:
> +total of all the separate CPU statistics.  The four numbers following
> +"cpu" entries are: user, nice, system and idle usage.  These are
> +stored in, I believe, jiffers.
They definitely are in   ^^^^^^^ units of jiffies.

> +The "btime" field the is up time of the system in seconds.

It's not the uptime, but actually the time in seconds that the system booted.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/


  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-15 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-15 15:29 /proc/stat description for proc.txt Sven Heinicke
2001-11-15 18:59 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-15 20:18   ` Sven Heinicke
2001-11-15 20:37     ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2001-11-15 20:43       ` Sven Heinicke
2001-11-15 21:00         ` Andreas Schwab
2001-11-15 21:10           ` Sven Heinicke
2001-11-15 21:51             ` Marius Gedminas
2001-11-16 16:50   ` Anthony DeRobertis
2001-11-20 23:02 ` Jorge Nerin
2001-11-21 15:47   ` Sven Heinicke

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