Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 21:08:22 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Patrick Thomas <root@utility.clubscholarship.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'b' processes in vmstat climbs steadily over time... Message-ID: <20020331030822.GA82492@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020330183519.Y99100-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> References: <20020330183519.Y99100-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com>
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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
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