On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Andy Ford wrote:
> It shows how many waiting processes I have (77).
Nope, w is the number of swapped out processes - which isn't really
waiting. From the vmstat man page:
The fields of vmstat's display are
procs Report the number of processes in each of the
three following states:
r in run queue
b blocked for resources I/O, paging, and so
forth
w runnable but swapped
> Now how do I go about determining which processes are in this state and
> how I can influence them to change state to non-waiting i.e. clear up
> the problem!!
ps will give you details of the state of a process, so you should be able
to see if any are being blocked, but from the vmstat output you show there
are just lots of processes which are inactive, so have been paged out.
What problems are you experiencing?
A.
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