Blocked Process

Fresh 3.2 install, fully patched.

vmstat shows 7 blocked processes. I've looked through 'ps aux' and don't see any processes that are blocked.

I do a 'ps auxk' see 8 "kernel threads" that seem to be "blocked" (have a 'D' flag).

Relevent 'ps auxk' output:

root     2  0.0  0.0   0     0 ??  DKL   Sat11PM    0:00.01 (pagedaemon)
root     3  0.0  0.0   0     0 ??  DKL   Sat11PM    0:09.15 (reaper)
root     4  0.0  0.0   0     0 ??  DKL   Sat11PM    0:00.72 (cleaner)
root     5  0.0  0.0   0     0 ??  DKL   Sat11PM    0:24.95 (update)
root     6  0.0  0.0   0     0 ??  DKL   Sat11PM    0:00.01 (aiodoned)
root     7  0.0  0.0   0     0 ??  DKL   Sat11PM    0:00.01 (crypto)
root     8  0.0  0.0   0     0 ??  DKL   Sat11PM    0:11.06 (apm0)

Can someone tell me if vmstat is counting these processes/threads as blocked so I can stop trying to find these blocked processes?

Thanks

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Chris Cameron
UpNIX Internet Administrator
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http://www.upnix.com Received on Mon Mar 31 13:45:45 2003