Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:55:26 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ... Message-ID: <20060624115505.E14669@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <20060624022227.X1114@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060623172557.H1114@ganymede.hub.org> <261AD16B-C3FE-4671-996E-563053508CE8@mac.com> <20060624022227.X1114@ganymede.hub.org>
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On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: MGF> > 'b' stands for "blocked", not "busy". Judging by your page fault rate MGF> > and the high number of frees and pages being scanned, you're probably MGF> > swapping tasks in and out and are waiting on disk. Take a look at MGF> > "vmstat -s", and consider adding more RAM if this is correct... MGF> MGF> is there a way of finding out what processes are blocked? Aren't they in 'D' status by ps? Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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