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

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

MGF> > MGF> 'k, stupid question then ... what am I searching for?
MGF> > MGF>
MGF> > MGF> # ps axlww | awk '{print $9}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
MGF> > 
MGF> > Well, try
MGF> > 
MGF> > ps axlww | awk '$10 ~ /^D[^L]/'
MGF> > 
MGF> > which should give you a list of blocked-in-uninterruptible-syscall
MGF> > processes
MGF> > excluding kernel threads...
MGF> 
MGF> Nadda:
MGF> 
MGF> pluto# ps axlww | awk '$10 ~ /^D[^L]/'

Errm... It seems I turn you to the wrong side... Normal disk-locked processes 
have DL (DL+) state...  Well, then try something like

ps ax -O ppid,flags,mwchan | awk '($6 ~ /^D/ || $6 == "STAT") && $3 !~ /^20.$/'


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