On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 02:36:50 -0800, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > from what I have been able to find under /Documentation /proc/loadavg is > > defined as giving three loadaverage numbers, 1 min, 5 min, 15 min. > > > > however as of 2.6.5ish timeframe there are a coupld of additional colums > > that do not appear to be documented > > > > the first is something #/# that could be # of running processes/total # of > > processes, but I can't find a definition of this anywhere > > number of currently ready-to-run threads > / > total number of threads in the machine > the pid of the most-recently-created thread. > > No idea why the last one is there.
This refects the forking activity. How `heavy' the load is. -- Coywolf Qi Hunt Homepage http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
