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

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:

> 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...

Considering I thought it was 'busy' and not 'blocked', I'm in new 
territory here :)

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