linux-kernel - /proc/loadavg: total number of processes is wrong?

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Message-ID: <47D85916.5080203@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:28:38 -0400
From:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: /proc/loadavg: total number of processes is wrong?

# cat /proc/loadavg ; ps ax | wc -l
0.00 0.00 0.00 1/192 3683
121

/proc/loadavg says 192 processes, but ps only sees 121.
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