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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users vmstat vs uptime? Post 302086839 by gfhgfnhhn on Monday 28th of August 2006 02:56:21 AM
Old 08-28-2006
Error vmstat vs uptime?

what is the relation between the output of vmstat
(cpu/us, cpu/sy, cpu/id) and output of uptime command?

it is said that
"one can think of load average as a percentage of system
utilization during the respective time period"
i have load average values obtained from uptime command
they are varying between 0-4.4 and i have output values for
vmstat it is constant for all (user %2,system %1 and idle %40)

measurements are done for 3.5 hours period.
do you have any idea?
 

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UPTIME(1)							   User Commands							 UPTIME(1)

NAME
uptime - tell how long the system has been running SYNOPSIS
uptime [OPTION]... [FILE] DESCRIPTION
Print the current time, the length of time the system has been up, the number of users on the system, and the average number of jobs in the run queue over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. Processes in an uninterruptible sleep state also contribute to the load average. If FILE is not specified, use /var/run/utmp. /var/log/wtmp as FILE is common. --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR
Written by Joseph Arceneaux, David MacKenzie, and Kaveh Ghazi. REPORTING BUGS
Report uptime bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for uptime is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and uptime programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'uptime invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 7.1 July 2010 UPTIME(1)
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