From e3cc2226e99cfadbf300dde892c4a16d742a0856 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luis Garces-Erice Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 18:30:44 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 4af0018533f..94b9f2056f4 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. -- 2.20.1