Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!info-vax From: info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: MWAIT problem: RWMPB Message-ID: <5259@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 18:49:24 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.5259 Posted: Tue Mar 5 18:49:24 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 05:16:22 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 15 From: Richard GarlandI have experienced very slow response today with several processes in the RWMPB state. I believe theis means "Modified Page writer busy". Does anyone know what I need to do to alleviate this? (Don't say "Buy more memory" please.) While this was going on I also got a lot of errors on the system disk. Could this be related? The system didn't crash so I *assumed* there were no disk errors that the swapper got - but maybe it was waiting for error recovery of some such thing. Any ideas would be welcome. Rg -------