Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:17:07 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ... Message-ID: <20060624221556.O30039@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <20060624145432.A1114@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060623172557.H1114@ganymede.hub.org> <261AD16B-C3FE-4671-996E-563053508CE8@mac.com> <20060624022227.X1114@ganymede.hub.org> <20060624115505.E14669@woozle.rinet.ru> <20060624090656.GB79678@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20060624145432.A1114@ganymede.hub.org>
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On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
MGF> > > MGF> is there a way of finding out what processes are blocked?
MGF> > >
MGF> > > Aren't they in 'D' status by ps?
MGF> > Use ps axlww. In this way, at least actual blocking points are shown.
MGF>
MGF> 'k, stupid question then ... what am I searching for?
MGF>
MGF> # ps axlww | awk '{print $9}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
Well, try
ps axlww | awk '$10 ~ /^D[^L]/'
which should give you a list of blocked-in-uninterruptible-syscall processes
excluding kernel threads...
Sincerely,
D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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