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