From 78fc91ec1b2ffd0bd15a4d3c43f1e3e7c7d1cdec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Elie De Brauwer Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 06:20:46 +1300 Subject: [PATCH] proc.5: Fix description of fourth field of /proc/loadavg SIgned-off-by: Elie De Brauwer Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man5/proc.5 | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 index 5aca38a28..54ccdd891 100644 --- a/man5/proc.5 +++ b/man5/proc.5 @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ .\" to see what information could be imported from that file .\" into this file. .\" -.TH PROC 5 2011-10-04 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH PROC 5 2012-02-08 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME proc \- process information pseudo-file system .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -1351,9 +1351,8 @@ They are the same as the load average numbers given by .BR uptime (1) and other programs. The fourth field consists of two numbers separated by a slash (/). -The first of these is the number of currently executing kernel -scheduling entities (processes, threads); -this will be less than or equal to the number of CPUs. +The first of these is the number of currently runnable kernel +scheduling entities (processes, threads). The value after the slash is the number of kernel scheduling entities that currently exist on the system. The fifth field is the PID of the process that was most