From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 26 22:25:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0392B16A411 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:25:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46F4D44112 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:55:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CF8F290C1F; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:55:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 51285-02; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:55:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E0CA290C1E; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:55:13 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0824D47F75; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:55:18 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0726247D68; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:55:18 -0300 (ADT) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:55:17 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Max Laier In-Reply-To: <200606262244.25505.max@love2party.net> Message-ID: <20060626185437.I1114@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060624221556.O30039@woozle.rinet.ru> <20060626143038.GK79678@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20060626152345.M1114@ganymede.hub.org> <200606262244.25505.max@love2party.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Kostik Belousov , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Dmitry Morozovsky Subject: Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:25:58 -0000 On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Max Laier wrote: > On Monday 26 June 2006 20:25, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> I think I might have found *at least* one of the problems, and that being >> the excessively high blocked states while ps isn't finding anything ... >> >> MySQL >> >> We just recently started allowing clients to run a MySQL server *within* >> their vServer ... in a drastic move, I just shut them all down on pluto, >> and blocked drop'd from ~86 down to 5 in a matter of moments ... >> restarting them all has it climbing once more, being up around 22 already >> ... >> >> I'm going to go with that theory for now, and keep an eye on things ... >> >> Just curious as to why, even with -H, its not showing any blocked states >> within ps though ... ? > > The "blocked" column shows also processes that have objects "paging". > Most likely you are *short* on memory. In order to relieve the pressure > program .text pages are free'ed and need to be refetched from disc > whenever the respective code is being executed. 'k, but shouldn't the OS be doing any swapping, if this was the case? I'm getting <1M of swappage when the blocked pages are really high ... ---- 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