[CentOS] vmstat and loadavg disagree about system load

[John R Pierce]

On 10/8/2014 9:00 PM, Mingfei Hua wrote:
> 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.

linux load average counts processes that are doing disk IO or network IO 
as being 'ready'.  they aren't actually running, but neither are they 
waiting on user input ('blocked' per vmstat's version of reality).



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