Re: serious MM problem with pre8,9 - vmstat stuck in D state

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 12:29:51 GMT


Hi,

On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:15:27 -0500 (EST), David Mansfield
<david@cobite.com> said:

> I'm glad it's safe now but not being able to run 'ps' when heavy swapping
> is occuring, and not being able to run 'vmstat' to see how things are
> going is pretty terrible, IMHO... Those are the times where getting
> process information is most important.

Agreed, and we'll have to look at it again to see if there is a better
way of achieving the same effect.

--Stephen

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