Bug 756659 - vmstat man page misleading r column
Summary: vmstat man page misleading r column
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: procps
Version: 16
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
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Assignee: Jaromír Cápík
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2011-11-24 07:24 UTC by Kazuo Moriwaka
Modified: 2016-02-01 01:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-09-11 16:56:20 UTC
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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.
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