From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 30 19: 8:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4395A37B41A for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 19:08:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2V38Nhd046670; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 21:08:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2V38Nh9046666; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 21:08:23 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 21:08:22 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Patrick Thomas Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'b' processes in vmstat climbs steadily over time... Message-ID: <20020331030822.GA82492@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020330183519.Y99100-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020330183519.Y99100-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Mar 30), Patrick Thomas said: > The number of processes on each machine has been fairly consistent > over the last month or so - about 250 processes on each machine. I > am _very_ alarmed that every day, another one or two processes gets > added to the 'b' column in `vmstat` output: > > r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr aa0 md0 in sy cs us sy id > 3 17 0 270948 174504 13 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 289 96 22 0 5 95 > > As you can see there are now 17 processes being "blocked for > resources". This number will continue to climb ... usually I reboot > the system when it gets above 20. So what are the processes? I believe they will show up on "ps axl" output with a D in the STAT column. Ignore the kernel threads (pids less than 10). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message