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

Fri Jun 23 20:44:33 UTC 2006

The machine doesn't appear to have hung yet, but:

  procs      memory      page                    disks     faults      cpu
  r b w     avm    fre  flt  re  pi  po  fr  sr da0 pa0   in   sy  cs us sy id
  1 42 1 10249060 161668 1290  54  12   3 1409 2202 102   0  751 6416 3350 24 15 61
  0 39 0 10148976 148104  654  10   5   2 660   0  49   0  615 4440 2584 18  9 73

the last time it hung, it hit about 45 ... about 6 hours ago, it was at 
~5-10 ... anything I should look at to figure out where those 39+ are 
'busy'?

The system is running a May 25th kernel of FreeBSD 6-STABLE .. Dual-PIII 
...

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