Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 4 Mar 2005 03:14:57 +0800 | | From | Coywolf Qi Hunt <> | | Subject | Re: proc/locaavg definition |
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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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