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

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

MGF> > Errm... It seems I turn you to the wrong side... Normal disk-locked
MGF> > processes
MGF> > have DL (DL+) state...  Well, then try something like
MGF> > 
MGF> > ps ax -O ppid,flags,mwchan | awk '($6 ~ /^D/ || $6 == "STAT") && $3 !~
MGF> > /^20.$/'
MGF> 
MGF> Still nothing to show 4 blocked processes (where it is sitting right now):
MGF> 
MGF> pluto# ps ax -O ppid,flags,mwchan | awk '($6 ~ /^D/ || $6 == "STAT") && $3
MGF> !~ /^20.$/'
MGF>   PID  PPID       F MWCHAN  TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND

Hmm, which processes are in D state at all, then?

ps ax -O ppid,flags,mwchan | awk '$6 ~ /^D/ || $6 == "STAT"'



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