From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 10:06:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE1037B423 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 10:06:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.telissant.com (h-66-167-251-2.PHLAPAFG.covad.net [66.167.251.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B0443F85 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 10:06:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anclo@anclo.com) Received: by smtp.telissant.com (Postfix, from userid 33) id 5A6CF16B762; Mon, 26 May 2003 13:06:43 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <1053968803.3ed249a339e1a@vmail.3dresearch.com> Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 13:06:43 -0400 (EDT) From: anclo@anclo.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.6 X-Originating-IP: 209.195.177.46 Subject: vmstat: which processes are blocked? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 17:06:46 -0000 Hello All, my vmstat output shows that there 2 processes blocked all the time: # vmstat -w 2 procs memory page disks faults cpu r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr ad0 ad1 in sy cs us sy id 0 2 0 8304 22004 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 248 53 14 0 1 99 0 2 0 8304 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 287 122 29 0 2 98 0 2 0 8304 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 279 94 26 0 2 98 0 2 0 8304 22004 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 282 105 26 0 2 98 0 2 0 8732 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 287 120 31 0 2 98 0 2 0 8336 22004 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 276 99 26 0 2 98 0 2 0 8336 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 285 120 28 0 2 98 0 2 0 8336 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 277 96 25 1 2 98 0 2 0 8336 22004 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 287 113 30 0 3 97 0 2 0 8336 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 310 152 39 1 3 96 0 2 0 7204 22004 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 283 107 28 1 3 96 0 2 0 7204 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 282 110 28 0 3 97 0 2 0 7204 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 278 96 27 1 1 98 0 2 0 7204 22004 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 264 79 23 0 1 98 0 2 0 6776 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 269 92 23 0 1 99 0 2 0 6776 22004 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 269 81 24 0 2 98 0 2 0 6776 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 268 82 23 0 2 98 0 2 0 6776 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 272 86 24 0 2 98 0 2 0 6776 22004 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 282 109 28 0 1 98 0 2 0 7204 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 273 98 25 0 3 97 1 2 0 7204 22004 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 285 107 31 0 2 98 0 2 0 8820 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 282 107 27 0 1 98 0 2 0 8820 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 274 86 24 0 2 97 0 2 0 8820 22004 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 259 65 20 0 1 99 0 2 0 8820 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 311 154 38 1 2 98 0 2 0 9216 22004 58 0 0 0 55 0 0 0 291 238 37 0 4 96 0 2 0 9216 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 296 132 31 0 2 98 1 2 0 9216 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 290 118 30 1 2 97 0 2 0 9216 22004 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 290 117 30 1 2 97 0 2 0 9216 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 286 112 30 0 1 99 0 2 0 7600 22004 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 283 107 30 1 2 98 0 2 0 7600 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 269 88 23 0 2 98 0 2 0 7600 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 259 62 19 0 2 98 0 2 0 7600 22004 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 268 81 22 0 2 98 0 2 0 7600 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 276 110 26 0 1 99 0 2 0 7204 22004 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 279 103 28 0 1 99 0 2 0 7204 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 270 90 24 0 1 98 0 2 0 7204 22004 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 264 70 21 0 2 98 0 2 0 7204 22004 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 268 81 24 0 1 99 ^C - How do I find out which ones are the blocked processes? - Why are these processes blocked? Seems I have free memory and the hard drive usage is pretty low, too. Hope you can give some insight, Anclo