Hello, The following patch updates the "cat /proc/stat" output found in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt, adding the new field "steal". Leonardo diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 4a37e25..ae795fe 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -785,9 +785,9 @@ Various pieces of information about kernel activity are available in the since the system first booted. For a quick look, simply cat the file: > cat /proc/stat - cpu 2255 34 2290 22625563 6290 127 456 - cpu0 1132 34 1441 11311718 3675 127 438 - cpu1 1123 0 849 11313845 2614 0 18 + cpu 2255 34 2290 22625563 6290 127 456 0 + cpu0 1132 34 1441 11311718 3675 127 438 0 + cpu1 1123 0 849 11313845 2614 0 18 0 intr 114930548 113199788 3 0 5 263 0 4 [... lots more numbers ...] ctxt 1990473 btime 1062191376 @@ -807,6 +807,7 @@ second). The meanings of the columns are as follows, from left to right: - iowait: waiting for I/O to complete - irq: servicing interrupts - softirq: servicing softirqs +- steal: involuntary wait The "intr" line gives counts of interrupts serviced since boot time, for each of the possible system interrupts. The first column is the total of all - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html