Vmstat showing blocking processes
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I'm new to the forum, but not new to pfsense. I recently installed the 1.2 release onto a Toshiba Tecra laptop (smp working).
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FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p11 #0: Sun Feb 24 16:32:58 EST 2008
sullrich@builder6.pfsense.com:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/src/sys/pfSense.6
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz (1662.51-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6e8 Stepping = 8
Features=0xbfe9fbff <fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,clflush,dts,acpi,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ss,htt,tm,pbe>Features2=0xc189<sse3,mon,est,tm2,<b14>,<b15>>
Cores per package: 2
real memory = 1064960000 (1015 MB)
avail memory = 1033117696 (985 MB)</b15></sse3,mon,est,tm2,<b14></fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,clflush,dts,acpi,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ss,htt,tm,pbe></dmesg>vmstat continually shows 4 blocked processes:
vmstat 2
procs memory page disk faults cpu
r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr ad0 in sy cs us sy id
0 4 0 65336 916740 144 0 0 0 127 0 0 748 294 1144 0 0 99
0 4 0 65336 916740 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 29936 60 2184 0 1 99
0 4 0 65336 916740 44 0 0 0 38 0 0 29929 124 2187 0 0 100
0 4 0 65336 916740 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 29928 76 2206 0 0 100
0 4 0 65336 916740 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 29931 60 2210 0 0 100even when the firewall is processing no traffic. I was just wondering if this was normal as I didn't notice it with the previous release.