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number of process vs. number of running processes - proc.num[] vs proc.num[,,run]

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  • brettcave
    Junior Member
    • Nov 2009
    • 2

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    number of process vs. number of running processes - proc.num[] vs proc.num[,,run]

    Hi,

    how is a process determined to be running? In zabbix, I have 2 items from the default linux template: Number of processes, defined by key proc.num[] and number of running processes defined by proc.num[,,run] gives different values. # proc is the number of total processes (as seen by `ps ...`), yet # running processes is always a relatively low number. Does this relate to "foreground processes" or "processes with a terminal / console" ?

    Thanks.
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