From: Luis Garces-Erice Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 02:30:44 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Doc: better explanation of procs_running X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e3cc2226e99cfadbf300dde892c4a16d742a0856;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git Doc: better explanation of procs_running the description in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt of the procs_running entry in /proc/stat is confusing (according to that description, it looks as if procs_running could only be a number between 0 and the number of CPUs). Changed it to a more accurate description in the patch attached. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 4af0018533f2..94b9f2056f4c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1089,8 +1089,8 @@ The "processes" line gives the number of processes and threads created, which includes (but is not limited to) those created by calls to the fork() and clone() system calls. -The "procs_running" line gives the number of processes currently running on -CPUs. +The "procs_running" line gives the total number of threads that are +running or ready to run (i.e., the total number of runnable threads). The "procs_blocked" line gives the number of processes currently blocked, waiting for I/O to complete.