From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 30 19:14:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83A1F37B400 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 19:14:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2V3EmCx019081; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:14:48 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200203310314.g2V3EmCx019081@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Patrick Thomas Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'b' processes in vmstat climbs steadily over time... In-Reply-To: <20020330183519.Y99100-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> From: Chris Fedde Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:14:48 -0700 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 On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 18:39:20 -0800 (PST) Patrick Thomas wrote: +------------------ | A related question: how can I tell which processes are the culprits ? +------------------ Use 'ps -auxww' to list all the current running processes. the STAT collum shows the process runstate. Your culprits will probably be marked with a 'D' and not be one of the critical system processes. Be sure to review the ps manual page since the options and display data are quite different from Solaris. Good Luck -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message