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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
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Subject: Re: proc/locaavg definition
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David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com> 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.