Hi John,

Followed line is quoted from “man vmstat”, it means r+b=running process + 
uninterruptible sleep process.  So, what’s the definition of system load, 
doesn’t it include running process and process in uninterruptible sleep. Which 
part is wrong? Please explicitly denote.

>     Procs

>         r: The number of processes waiting for run time.

>         b: The number of processes in uninterruptible sleep.



Regards,

Mingfei



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
John R Pierce
Sent: 2014年10月9日 13:19
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CentOS] vmstat and loadavg disagree about system load



On 10/8/2014 10:01 PM, Mingfei Hua wrote:

> The man interpretation of vmstat running and blocked process:

>     Procs

>         r: The number of processes waiting for run time.

>         b: The number of processes in uninterruptible sleep.

> The blocked here is not process waiting user input, it should include process 
> waiting IO and network. It should has same meaning with system load in 
> loadavg which include running(runnable) process and process in status of 
> uninterruptible sleep.



'should' according to what ?



Linux has *NEVER* worked that way.



--

john r pierce                                      37N 122W

somewhere on the middle of the left coast



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