From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 23 20:44:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B48516A4A6 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:44:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEA9143D46 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:44:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E73B290C6E for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:44:27 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 10183-10 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:44:29 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44A96290C6D for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:44:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EF0755C24E; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:44:28 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA4B65C19E for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:44:28 -0300 (ADT) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:44:28 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060623172557.H1114@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:44:33 -0000 The machine doesn't appear to have hung yet, but: procs memory page disks faults cpu r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr da0 pa0 in sy cs us sy id 1 42 1 10249060 161668 1290 54 12 3 1409 2202 102 0 751 6416 3350 24 15 61 0 39 0 10148976 148104 654 10 5 2 660 0 49 0 615 4440 2584 18 9 73 the last time it hung, it hit about 45 ... about 6 hours ago, it was at ~5-10 ... anything I should look at to figure out where those 39+ are 'busy'? The system is running a May 25th kernel of FreeBSD 6-STABLE .. Dual-PIII ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664