Hi Kris, On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 3:15 AM, emani murali <murali132@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > I'm running a multithreaded program in OpenMP on linux to study CPU > overloading. As the subject says, I need to know the number of threads this > program creates (assuming in this case, number of threads in this program is > same as the number of user threads) from the information kernel provides. > > I'm looking something similar to run-queue length from "sar -q 0" that gives > me exact picture of number of user threads. From the implementation of sar, > I found that this information is fetched from /proc filesystem. > > So is there anyway that /proc fs gives me the number of threads running in > the system, apart from /proc/cpuinfo that gives me a static information of > existing CPUs. There is a directory in /proc/PID/task for each thread contained within a process. -- Dave Hylands Shuswap, BC, Canada http://www.davehylands.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies