[PATCH 6/8] docs: explain procs_running better
- From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:04:52 -0800
From: Luis Garces-Erice <lge@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: 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 <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- lnx-2632-rc6.orig/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ lnx-2632-rc6/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -1088,8 +1088,8 @@ The "processes" line gives the number o
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.
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