[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#620297: Bug#620297: base: vmstat and /proc/loadavg disagree

[Amaya]

Hi, Brandon

Can you reproduce this with other kernel versions?

Brandon Metcalf wrote:
> Package: base
> Severity: important
> 
> After a system running squeeze has been under constant load, the load
> averages in /proc/loadavg seem to be calculated incorrectly with
> /proc/loadavg showing values that are much too low.  Below is vmstat
> output along with the contents of /proc/loadavg.  The fourth field
> of /proc/loadavg seems correct, but the 1-minute avg is definitely wrong:
> 
> vmstat:
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
>  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
> 11  0      0 12569200  22832 7468824    0    0     9   135   22   96 39  3 58  0
> loadavg:
> 0.34 4.98 6.47 10/468 13072
> vmstat:
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
>  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
> 15  0      0 12566340  22832 7469612    0    0     9   135   23   96 39  3 58  0
> loadavg:
> 0.34 4.98 6.47 16/468 13075
> 
> Although this is just two samples, the behavior is consistent over a long
> period of time.
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 6.0.1
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> 
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