On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote:

KB> > MGF> > 'b' stands for "blocked", not "busy".  Judging by your page fault 
rate
KB> > MGF> > and the high number of frees and pages being scanned, you're 
probably
KB> > MGF> > swapping tasks in and out and are waiting on disk.  Take a look at
KB> > MGF> > "vmstat -s", and consider adding more RAM if this is correct...
KB> > MGF>
KB> > MGF> is there a way of finding out what processes are blocked?
KB> >
KB> > Aren't they in 'D' status by ps?
KB> Use ps axlww. In this way, at least actual blocking points are shown.

/me knows ;-) OTOH, I'm faurly sure scrappy@ should know this very well...

Considering I thought it was 'busy' and not 'blocked', I'm in new territory here :)

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