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

From: Robert Miller (rmiller@SMUD.ORG)
Date: Thu Apr 08 2004 - 09:10:41 EDT


Hmm, what fileset is that in? It doesn't seem to be installed on the
box...

--rm

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU]On Behalf Of
Jan-Frode Myklebust
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 4:54 PM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: How to find out what processes are on the Blocked list?

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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