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

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Message-ID: <3d8471ca0803121550g2a88a744nffdde7dff4ce9f95@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:50:35 +0100
From:	"Guillaume Chazarain" <guichaz@...il.com>
To:	"Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@...il.com>
Cc:	"Chuck Ebbert" <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: /proc/loadavg: total number of processes is wrong?

On 3/12/08, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com> wrote:
> I guess you need to ps max, but it won't match exactly anyway.

With ps axh you can get it:

[g ~]$ cat /proc/loadavg|cat
0.45 0.35 0.24 3/192 12463
[g ~]$ ps Haxh|wc -l
192


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Guillaume
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