11-04-2008
I will elaborate further on this later, just a few impressions on first glance:
Your system seems to have not enough RAM for what you are doing. The result is some heavy swapping going on. The vmstat output is somewhat different from the system i usually work on (AIX), but a few things never change:
Look at the first two columns, named "r" and "b". The "r" is the number of running processes at that time, "b" is the number of blocked processes. "blocked" means the process would be ready to run but has to wait for some reason. In a majority of cases this is because it was swapped out earlier and now is waiting until swapping it in has finished.
The depth of the blocked-queue should therefore ideally be a constant zero - everything else is alarming.
On the right part of the output the CPU activity is shown. "us" "sy" "id" "wa" are percent values and add up to 100. They show how much time the CPU has spent in user space, system routines, idling and waiting. In an ideal world the CPU would spent most of its time in us and sy, the rest would go to id and wa would be 0. Every time the wa value is bigger than 0 this means that the CPU has found nothing productive to do. Most of the times this is also a side effect of processes swapping in and out, because as long as the swapping goes on the CPU can do nothing but wait, save for the few system calls necessary for the swapping itself.
Ok, I'm in a bit of a hurry, later more.
bakunin
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times(2) System Calls Manual times(2)
NAME
times - get process and child process times
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
fills the structure pointed to by buffer with time-accounting information. The structure defined in is as follows:
struct tms {
clock_t tms_utime; /* user time */
clock_t tms_stime; /* system time */"
clock_t tms_cutime; /* user time, children */
clock_t tms_cstime; /* system time, children */
};
This information comes from the calling process and each of its terminated child processes for which it has executed a or The times are in
units of 1/seconds, where is processor dependent. The value of can be queried using the function (see sysconf(2)).
is the CPU time used while executing instructions in the user space of the calling process.
is the CPU time used by the system on behalf of the calling process.
is the sum of the and of the child processes.
is the sum of the and of the child processes.
RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, returns the elapsed real time, in units of 1/of a second, since an arbitrary point in the past (such as system
start-up time). This point does not change from one invocation of to another. If fails, (clock_t) -1 is returned and is set to indicate
the error.
Remarks
has a granularity of one tick. Processes which run less than one tick may not register any value.
ERRORS
fails if buffer points to an illegal address. The reliable detection of this error is implementation dependent.
WARNINGS
Not all CPU time expended by system processes on behalf of a user process is counted in the system CPU time for that process.
SEE ALSO
time(1), exec(2), fork(2), gettimeofday(2), sysconf(2), time(2), wait(2).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
times(2)