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Date:      Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:25:29 +0200
From:      Marian Hettwer <MH@kernel32.de>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
Subject:   Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...
Message-ID:  <44A06CE9.7040901@kernel32.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060626152345.M1114@ganymede.hub.org>
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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
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