[fa.info-vax] MWAIT problem: RWMPB

info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (03/06/85)

From: Richard Garland <OC.GARLAND%CU20B@COLUMBIA.ARPA>

I 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
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