Hi, I found that the information on proc(5) in the latest version of man-pages (3.21) do not seem to match the real implementation, regarding the file /proc/loadavg. The manual page says that: "The first of these [the two numbers of the fourth field] is the number of currently executing kernel scheduling entities (processes, threads); this will be less than or equal to the number of CPUs." By looking at the implementation in (v2.6.29)/fs/proc/loadavg.c, this field returns the value of `nr_running()', which is defined in /kernel/sched.c and returns the current number of *runnable* threads. It is easily verifiable that this value may and will be greater the number of CPUs if you start a number of processing-intensive threads, then inspect /proc/loadavg. Best regards, Juliano. -- Juliano F. Ravasi ·· http://juliano.info/ 5105 46CC B2B7 F0CD 5F47 E740 72CA 54F4 DF37 9E96 "A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle." -- Erin Majors -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
