Bug 756659

Summary: vmstat man page misleading r column
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Kazuo Moriwaka <kmoriwak>
Component: procpsAssignee: Jaromír Cápík <jcapik>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Kazuo Moriwaka 2011-11-24 07:24:04 UTC
Description of problem:

in vmstat(8) man page 'r' field described as following:
>    Procs
>        r: The number of processes waiting for run time.

but recent linux kernel doesn't separate 'running' process and 'waiting for run time' process.

I propose a new description.

r: Total number of running/runnable processes

Comment 1 Jaromír Cápík 2012-05-29 13:01:06 UTC
Hello Kazuo.

You're right. The description is a bit confusing. I'm going to propose the change upstream and we'll see.
I'll let you know once I have any feedback.

Regards,
Jaromir.

Comment 2 Jaromír Cápík 2012-09-11 16:56:20 UTC
Hello Kazuo.

It has been merged upstream in the following form:

   r: The number of runnable processes (running or waiting for run time).


It's introduced in f18 & rawhide(f19). Closing as RAWHIDE.