Hi John, The first two number of vmstat is running process and blocked process, the sum of the two number should equal to system load. But it's inconsistent in this case. Regards, Mingfei -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: 2014年10月9日 11:57 To: centos at centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] vmstat and loadavg disagree about system load On 10/8/2014 8:48 PM, Mingfei Hua wrote: > 1 4 499492 150392 4496 4763380 0 0 192 552 1227 1094 2 0 75 24 0 > ... > 1 2 499520 135936 4428 4770852 0 0 27144 120 2428 2449 9 1 85 6 0 > 2 1 499520 148336 4428 4761668 0 0 19072 192 2281 2420 8 1 83 8 0 > 0 2 499520 156408 4432 4749652 0 0 12416 436 1303 1235 3 0 86 11 0 > ... > [root at idm-amst-db-12 ~]# uptime > 01:47:47 up 26 days, 4:21, 1 user, load average: 26.85, 22.12, 19.38 > [root at idm-amst-db-12 ~]# uptime > 01:47:58 up 26 days, 4:21, 1 user, load average: 24.38, 21.74, 19.29 > [root at idm-amst-db-12 ~]# cat /proc/loadavg > 25.40 22.05 19.45 1/555 13911 > two completely different sorts of numbers. vmstat is printing the % of CPU usage by user, sys, and idle. load average is the average number of 'ready to run' processes in the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos