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

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> 3416     1 1004100 ufs     ??  DsJ    0:13.01 
> /usr/local/libexec/postfix/master
> 3418  3416 1004100 ufs     ??  DJ     0:04.16 qmgr -l -t fifo -u
> 33561  3416 1004100 ufs     ??  DJ     0:00.02 smtp -n smtp-amavis -t unix -u 
> -o smtp_data_done_timeout=1200
> 33562  3416 1004100 ufs     ??  DJ     0:00.06 local -t unix
> 33565  3416 1004100 ufs     ??  DJ     0:00.02 smtp -n smtp-amavis -t unix -u 
> -o smtp_data_done_timeout=1200
> 33566  3416 1004100 ufs     ??  DJ     0:00.05 local -t unix
> 33567  3416 1004100 ufs     ??  DJ     0:00.02 lmtp -t unix -u
> 33568  3416 1004100 ufs     ??  DJ     0:00.02 smtp -n smtp-amavis -t unix -u 
> -o smtp_data_done_timeout=1200
> 33569  3416 1004100 ufs     ??  DJ     0:00.05 local -t unix
> 33570  3416 1004100 ufs     ??  DJ     0:00.05 lmtp -t unix -u
> 33572  3416 1004100 ufs     ??  DJ     0:00.02 smtp -n smtp-amavis -t unix -u 
> -o smtp_data_done_timeout=1200
> 33573  3416 1004100 ufs     ??  DJ     0:00.05 local -t unix
> 33574  3416 1004100 ufs     ??  DJ     0:00.02 bounce -z -n defer -t unix -u
> 33577  3416 1004100 ufs     ??  DJ     0:00.05 lmtp -t unix -u
> 33578  3416 1004100 ufs     ??  DJ     0:00.02 smtp -n smtp-amavis -t unix -u 
> -o smtp_data_done_timeout=1200
> 33580  3416 1004100 ufs     ??  DJ     0:00.05 lmtp -t unix -u
> 33581  3416 1004100 biowr   ??  DJ     0:00.01 bounce -z -n defer -t unix -u
> 33584  3416 1004100 ufs     ??  DJ     0:00.01 bounce -z -n defer -t unix -u
> 54491 48090    4000 ufs     ??  D      0:00.79 du -skx 
> /vm/296/alambredelacalcompartido.com
> 30418 30416    4002 ppwait  pa  Ds     0:00.19 -csh (csh)

The postfix/master process on PID 3416 is within the 
alambredelacalcompartido.com vServer/directory structure that is 
currently blocked for the du ...

If that helps any ... and none of those processes I can appear to kill off 
...

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