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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:26:35 +0100
From:      Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: leaking blocked processes in vmstat ... how to debug?
Message-ID:  <1151324795.80434.8.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20060626082906.T1114@ganymede.hub.org>
References:  <20060626080344.X1114@ganymede.hub.org> <20060626082906.T1114@ganymede.hub.org>

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On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 08:29 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Up to 48 right now, and still nothing to show for it ...

Is it possible that these processes are blocked while exiting?

There's currently an unresolved bug where processes get wedged either
during startup or exit.  See if you have any processes in state "START"
in top, or with an E in the "STAT" column:

ps ax -O ppid,flags,mwchan | awk '$6 ~ /E/ || $6 == "STAT"'

Gavin



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