vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote:

KB> > MGF> > 'b' stands for "blocked", not "busy".  Judging by your page fault rate
KB> > MGF> > and the high number of frees and pages being scanned, you're probably
KB> > MGF> > swapping tasks in and out and are waiting on disk.  Take a look at
KB> > MGF> > "vmstat -s", and consider adding more RAM if this is correct...
KB> > MGF> 
KB> > MGF> is there a way of finding out what processes are blocked?
KB> > 
KB> > Aren't they in 'D' status by ps?
KB> Use ps axlww. In this way, at least actual blocking points are shown.

/me knows ;-) OTOH, I'm faurly sure scrappy@ should know this very well...

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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