On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Seibel, Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 14, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Robert Citek wrote: >> These three commands capture about the same information: the number of >> currently running processes: >> >> # ls -d /proc/[0-9]* | wc -l ; /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_procs ; >> ps faux | wc -l >> 506 >> PROCS OK: 505 processes >> 507 >> >> Does sar collect that information? >> > > Maybe sar is counting LWPs, all the threads in all the processes.
Possibly. If so, any thoughts on how to reconcile the numbers? Although, I'm really only interested in processes and not threads. Regards, - Robert -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
