Not sure this is the right place for this question, but here goes:
I'm trying to make some sense of the /proc/pid/sched and /proc/pid/task/tid/sched files for a highly threaded server process, however I was not able to find a good explanation of how to interpret this file ( just a few bits here: http://knol.google.com/k/linux-performance-tuning-and-measurement# ) .
I assume this entry in procfs is related to newer versions of the kernel that run with the CFS scheduler?
CentOS distro running on a 2.6.24.7-149.el5rt kernel version with preempt rt patch.
Any thoughts?
Best Answer
You can find more documentation about the /proc/[pid]/sched file in this article:
http://lwn.net/Articles/242900/
Look at the comments. Most of the fields are explained.
Addendum: the file is writeable to reset the statistics.