From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: When you do a man vmstat it doesn't explain the "wa" column. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): procps-2.0.13-3E How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. man vmstat 2. 3. Actual Results: ... CPU These are percentages of total CPU time. us: user time sy: system time id: idle time Expected Results: ... CPU These are percentages of total CPU time. us: user time sy: system time id: idle time wa: <something here> Additional info: The wa column doesn't exist in RHL9
This also applies to RHEL3 GA and RHL9.
$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/vmstat procps-2.0.13-9.2E $ vmstat 2 2 procs memory swap io system cpu r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 2 0 11064 43608 126412 6265372 1 3 1 4 1 3 4 1 2 0 1 0 11064 43608 126412 6265372 0 0 0 126 156 26 50 0 49 0 According to man page the last column is supposed to be CPU idle (id). In the previous versions for example procps-2.0.7-11 the output looks as follows which is correct. procs memory swap io system cpu r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id 0 0 0 116 1088724 135372 2452512 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 116 1088724 135372 2452512 0 0 0 38 564 49 0 0 100 Please correct this to be same as previous versions. I was told by Rob Love <rml> that This is "fixed" in the current procps CVS and in the procps currently in Fedora. So Red Hat just needs to upgrade the package in RHEL3. Thanks, Pethuraj
I would highly appreciate it if i am notified about how to download once the new rpms available for i686, x86_64 and ia64.
Fixed in Current Release 3.1.15