Re: How to find out what processes are on the Blocked list?

From: Jan-Frode Myklebust (janfrode@PARALLAB.UIB.NO)
Date: Wed Apr 07 2004 - 19:54:05 EDT


On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 03:25:40PM -0700, Robert Miller wrote:
>
> I have a box that's spending a whole lotta time waiting for I/O, which seems to have happened recently. Is there a way to tell which processes are causing the I/O wait?
>

Best way I know of to find the usual suspects is:

        NMON=t5 nmon

That should show the top I/O intensive processes.

  -jf



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