From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 24 02:02:33 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 1E94216A494 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 02:02:33 +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 47B4343D53 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 02:02:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77318290C6E; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:02:25 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 54107-03; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:02:30 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA91B290C6D; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:02:24 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A81C14636C; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:02:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E953CE09; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:02:35 -0300 (ADT) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:02:35 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "Matthew D. Fuller" In-Reply-To: <20060624013305.GN83482@over-yonder.net> Message-ID: <20060623225437.C1114@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> <20060624013305.GN83482@over-yonder.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 02:02:33 -0000 On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > 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. ah, okay ... I've been talking with the on-site tech, and there are more issues then just what I'm seeing with vmstat ... the fact that one of the CPUs died yesterday being one of them :( Just bothers me that its been running 4.x for 3 years now, no problems and as soon as I upgrade it to 6.x, all the headaches start :( ---- 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