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From: Mr M P Searle <csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: complete lockup under large I/O?
In-Reply-To: <19990111182435H.simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> from Hidetoshi Shimokawa at "Jan 11, 99 06:24:35 pm"
To: simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Hidetoshi Shimokawa)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 14:50:22 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: mike@smith.net.au, mjacob@feral.com, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
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> mike> > I sometimes have similar problem.
> mike> > In such case, ps shows many process are waiting at vmpfw or ppwait state.
> mike> 
> mike> Is there one waiting in 'ffsvget'?  If so, we've seen this on a system 
> mike> here was well.  Luoqi and Tor seem to have some ideas on resolving it.
> 
> No such process.
> Many proccesses waiting at vmpfw are 'cron'. It may be because I run 
> package build on MFS during night and found the machine freeze when I
> woke up.
> 
> All states that can be found is:
> 
> accept
> getblk
> inode
> nanslp
> nfsd
> nfsidl
> pause
> ppwait
> psleep
> sbwait
> sched
> select
> ttyin
> vmpfw
> wait
> wmesg
> wswbuf
> 
>

Where can I find what each state means?


Mike.


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