Re: What denotes a 'blocked' process?

2006-06-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
Looking at the sources: The 'blocked' column in vmstat is the sum of (struct vmtotal).t_dw /* jobs in ``disk wait'' (neg priority) */ and (struct vmtotal).t_pw /* jobs in page wait */ 'systat -v' splits these into two fields (Proc:d and Proc:p) as does sysctl vm.vmtotal It's difficult to map

What denotes a 'blocked' process?

2006-06-26 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Just upgraded to June 15th sources, started up all the processes, and am already at 29 blocked processes ... I've checked for states D, E and L ... nothing ... Actually, let's go one better ... attached is a complete list of my process table (MWCHAN, STATE, COMMAND) ... right now, vmstat is

Re: What denotes a 'blocked' process?

2006-06-26 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Just upgraded to June 15th sources, started up all the processes, and am already at 29 blocked processes ... I've checked for states D, E and L ... nothing ... Actually, let's go one better ... attached is a complete list of my process table

Re: What denotes a 'blocked' process?

2006-06-26 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:44:17PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Just upgraded to June 15th sources, started up all the processes, and am already at 29 blocked processes ... I've checked for states D, E and L ... nothing ... Actually,

Re: What denotes a 'blocked' process?

2006-06-26 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: Dumb unmotivated question: do you have nfs exports on this machine ? neither nfs nor mountd are currently running ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED]