vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

MGF> > 'b' stands for "blocked", not "busy".  Judging by your page fault rate
MGF> > and the high number of frees and pages being scanned, you're probably
MGF> > swapping tasks in and out and are waiting on disk.  Take a look at
MGF> > "vmstat -s", and consider adding more RAM if this is correct...
MGF> 
MGF> is there a way of finding out what processes are blocked?

Aren't they in 'D' status by ps?

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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