From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 31 22:17:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from utility.clubscholarship.com (utility.clubscholarship.com [198.78.70.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C4B137B417 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:17:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by utility.clubscholarship.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g316FlT70423; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:15:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@utility.clubscholarship.com) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:15:47 -0800 (PST) From: Patrick Thomas To: Dan Nelson Cc: Subject: Re: 'b' processes in vmstat climbs steadily over time... In-Reply-To: <20020331030822.GA82492@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: <20020331221329.C70244-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 ok, I checked what processes on my system have a 'D' in the ps stat column - there are only 7 of those processes, and they are all pids lower than 11.... Which is odd, since I have currently 17 blocked processes showing up in `vmstat` output, but only 7 showing up with 'D' in stat. (there are a bunch (10) of jails running on this machine - don't know if that means anything...) Anyway, still unresolved: why do I have all these (17 and rising) blocked processes ... and why do they steadily increase over time when load stays the same (and why can i not figure out which processes they are using the methods you suggested)? thanks..PT To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message