[CentOS] vmstat and loadavg disagree about system load

[John R Pierce]

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.

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