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Find the no. of active threads in a C program
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/usr/local/bin/top
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
13072 joe 1 22 0 12M 5784K cpu/0 0:13 12.73% proc1
13141 joe 1 43 0 3104K 2384K cpu/1 0:00 1.07% top
12692 joe 1 58 0 31M 25M sleep 0:21 0.23% proc4
10247 root 6 0 0 7352K 6064K sleep 749:01 0.22% automountd
217 root 30 55 0 31M 23M sleep 87:58 0.18% nscd
the THR column is the THREAD count. now how many of those are ACTIVE and doing work? who knows but if it is a lot of them then it will be at the TOP of the display because it would be using a lot of CPU.
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
13072 joe 1 22 0 12M 5784K cpu/0 0:13 12.73% proc1
13141 joe 1 43 0 3104K 2384K cpu/1 0:00 1.07% top
12692 joe 1 58 0 31M 25M sleep 0:21 0.23% proc4
10247 root 6 0 0 7352K 6064K sleep 749:01 0.22% automountd
217 root 30 55 0 31M 23M sleep 87:58 0.18% nscd
the THR column is the THREAD count. now how many of those are ACTIVE and doing work? who knows but if it is a lot of them then it will be at the TOP of the display because it would be using a lot of CPU.
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