On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:55:26AM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > 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? Use ps axlww. In this way, at least actual blocking points are shown.
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