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

[Marian Hettwer]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Hej there,

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> I think I might have found *at least* one of the problems, and that
> being the excessively high blocked states while ps isn't finding
> anything ...
> 
> MySQL
> 
> We just recently started allowing clients to run a MySQL server *within*
> their vServer ... in a drastic move, I just shut them all down on pluto,
> and blocked drop'd from ~86 down to 5 in a matter of moments ...
> restarting them all has it climbing once more, being up around 22
> already ...
> 
I don't know wether it helps at all. I guess, not... But I'm seeing
blocked processes (mysqld) waiting for disk I/O all over the place when
running heavy duty MySQL servers. This is on Linux and FreeBSD.
Linux would be either 2.4.31 or 2.6.14 both with MySQL 4.1.x

./Marian
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin)

iD8DBQFEoGzngAq87Uq5FMsRAvk2AKDhWv6DplvGko1/5F4sy7JXuSOcTACcC8zO
uF/xKOKq7oyR2V/cP93CKzI=
=dv7F
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----