Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:11:09 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: leaking blocked processes in vmstat ... how to debug? Message-ID: <20060626131018.O1114@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <1151324795.80434.8.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> References: <20060626080344.X1114@ganymede.hub.org> <20060626082906.T1114@ganymede.hub.org> <1151324795.80434.8.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 08:29 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> Up to 48 right now, and still nothing to show for it ... > > Is it possible that these processes are blocked while exiting? > > There's currently an unresolved bug where processes get wedged either > during startup or exit. See if you have any processes in state "START" > in top, or with an E in the "STAT" column: > > ps ax -O ppid,flags,mwchan | awk '$6 ~ /E/ || $6 == "STAT"' Stupid question here, that I just thought about ... is it possible for a threaded process to have one of its threads blocked, but with it not showing up in a ps listing? Or will the ps listing show it as blocked? ---- 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
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