From: John Malick (john@starinc.com)
Date: Mon Apr 11 2005 - 13:47:22 EDT
Looks like the problem has been resolved. Why this situation exists I
don't know.
Two V480's same OS and presumably the same patch releases. Vmstat is
whacked on one but not the other.
patchadd -p reveals that the patch levels are the same on both machines.
uname -a though reveals that 117350-xx is the kernel patch on one
machine but 108528-29 is what uname -a reveals on the other. patchadd -p
still shows 117350-xx on that buggy V480 but apparently something
happened during the patch install which did not get installed properly.
Anyway, I re-applied the 117350 patch along with the fix patch for
vmstat (117000-05) and the problem has gone away.
This would be the first time in 15 years that a showrev or patchadd
command stated a patch was installed when apparently it was not.
Thanks for the help pointing me to the 117000-05 patch.
>>
>>John Malick wrote:
>>
>>>Running Solaris 8 with latest recommended patches from 1 month
>>>ago.
>>>
>>>Also running Veritas VM 3.5 and Veritas FileSystem 3.5.
>>>
>>>Vmstat's "b" column, for kernel threads blocked for
>>
>>resources keeps,
>>
>>>keeps climbing.
>>>
>>>Below is just one line of many:
>>>
>>>r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de
>>
>>sr s0 sd sd
>>
>>>1 38877704 0 4857296 1137056 262 1380 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 0
>>> 0
>>>
>>>As you can see, the 'b' column is currently 38+ million and
>>
>>climbing.
>>
>>>What is more strange is that I would expect these numbers
>>
>>to manifest
>>
>>>themselves as a system that would be completely unusable.
>>
>>The fact is
>>
>>>that the system does not seem to be taking any kind of
>>
>>performance hit
>>
>>>and is running along great.
>>>
>>>Obviously this number is incorrect but I can't find
>>
>>anything indicating
>>
>>>why this number would be so high and growing.
>>>
>>>I have an identical system (V480) running the same version
>>
>>of Solaris
>>
>>>and Veritas and with exactly the same patch levels which is
>>
>>not showing
>>
>>>this strange behaviour.
>>>
>>>Strange?
>>>
>>>Any ideas?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>
>>--
>>
>>
>>
>>John Malick
>>Star Systems Engineering
>>232-236 West Market St.
>>York, PA. 17401
>>
>>john@starinc.com www.starinc.com
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