Rajesh Mahajan wrote: > The output of /proc/loadavg > 0.13 0.18 0.14 2/92 5621 > first three are ave load past 1,5,15 mintue > what is meaning of remaining entries and how it is calculted >From 'man proc': The fourth field consists of two numbers separated by a slash (/). The first of these is the number of currently executing kernel scheduling entities (processes, threads); this will be less than or equal to the number of CPUs. The value after the slash is the number of kernel scheduling entities that currently exist on the system. The fifth field is the PID of the process that was most recently created on the system. --- fm -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/