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 >>ph:717-854-5911 fx:717-852-9421 >>_______________________________________________ >>sunmanagers mailing list >>sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org >>http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers >> > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP Personal Security 7.0.3 > > iQA/AwUBQlWMrFe1Bhkj9lZeEQJFYgCg2XqHDW1uJdglc3gjvYUNJZ3AF5gAoPjH > SzRwjtZnb05/g1AxoZ3+/V1U > =MkZy > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- John Malick Star Systems Engineering 232-236 West Market St. York, PA. 17401 john@starinc.com www.starinc.com ph:717-854-5911 fx:717-852-9421 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Apr 11 13:48:16 2005
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