From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 1 8:48:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE32837B405 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 08:48:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g31GmN6M041942; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 10:48:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g31GmNXm041939; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 10:48:23 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 10:48:23 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Patrick Thomas Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'b' processes in vmstat climbs steadily over time... Message-ID: <20020401164823.GA13982@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020331030822.GA82492@dan.emsphone.com> <20020331221329.C70244-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020331221329.C70244-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Mar 31), Patrick Thomas said: > ok, I checked what processes on my system have a 'D' in the ps stat > - column there are only 7 of those processes, and they are all pids > lower than 11.... > > Which is odd, since I have currently 17 blocked processes showing up > in `vmstat` output, but only 7 showing up with 'D' in stat. > > (there are a bunch (10) of jails running on this machine - don't know > if that means anything...) > > Anyway, still unresolved: why do I have all these (17 and rising) > blocked processes ... and why do they steadily increase over time > when load stays the same (and why can i not figure out which > processes they are using the methods you suggested)? If they're blocked, they are not running, so your load doesn't rise. All I can suggest is maybe to save the output of "px axl" every day or so and see if you can find the processes just by looking for new ones in the listing. Maybe vmstat is just wrong. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message