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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
majek · Dec 10, 2009 · e3cc222 · e3cc222
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -1089,8 +1089,8 @@ The "processes" line gives the number  of processes and threads created, which
 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.