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DateFri, 4 Mar 2005 03:14:57 +0800
FromCoywolf Qi Hunt <>
SubjectRe: proc/locaavg definition
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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