leaking blocked processes in vmstat ... how to debug?

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Gavin Atkinson wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 08:29 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> Up to 48 right now, and still nothing to show for it ...
>
> Is it possible that these processes are blocked while exiting?
>
> There's currently an unresolved bug where processes get wedged either
> during startup or exit.  See if you have any processes in state "START"
> in top, or with an E in the "STAT" column:
>
> ps ax -O ppid,flags,mwchan | awk '$6 ~ /E/ || $6 == "STAT"'

Stupid question here, that I just thought about ... is it possible for a 
threaded process to have one of its threads blocked, but with it not 
showing up in a ps listing?  Or will the ps listing show it as blocked?

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