includes (but is not limited to) those created by calls to the fork() and
clone() system calls.
-The "procs_running" line gives the number of processes currently running on
-CPUs.
+The "procs_running" line gives the total number of threads that are
+running or ready to run (i.e., the total number of runnable threads).
The "procs_blocked" line gives the number of processes currently blocked,
waiting for I/O to complete.