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From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
Subject: Re: get number of threads from a running process
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:34:21 +0100
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On 12/11/2012 05:49 PM, Skellington wrote:

> is it possible to get a count on the number of threads a process is
> using? For example lets say I have Apache "httpd" and it has 66
> threads running according to top. Is there a way to get the number
> using ruby?

On Linux

def thread_count(pid)
   Dir["/proc/#{pid}/task/*"].size
end

Kind regards

	robert