Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:33:05 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ... Message-ID: <20060624013305.GN83482@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <20060623220204.L1114@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060623172557.H1114@ganymede.hub.org> <261AD16B-C3FE-4671-996E-563053508CE8@mac.com> <20060623191131.C1114@ganymede.hub.org> <20060623231121.GL83482@over-yonder.net> <20060623220204.L1114@ganymede.hub.org>
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On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 10:02:22PM -0300 I heard the voice of Marc G. Fournier, and lo! it spake thus: > > Which is odd, no, if I'm hardly swapping? Well, > >> 31750 vnode pager pageins > >> 15954 vnode pager pageouts It's the vnode pager, not the swap pager. AIUI, that's mostly paging in and out pages of running binaries (from the image on disk), not moving stuff in and out of swapspace. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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