On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 06:09:31AM +0000, Thomas Abraham wrote: > Is there any system call to find out the number of > processes in the ready queue. Or there is any other > method to find it. I think /proc/*/status tells you what you want. Look at utilities like top, ps, and vmstat to see how to do it. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/