On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <free...@jdc.parodius.com>wrote:
> > Well the top bug didn't seem to resolve my actual issue and yes it it a > > complete ZFS system. Problem is that the HD activity indicator light is > > constantly flickering even though should be minimal activity. top still > > shows no activity around the blinks, and there's no swapping happening > > although gstat does seem to roughly match the blinks. I can't tell what > > your patch does, would it enable me to see what's touching the disk? > > Please try using gstat(8) instead. > Like I said gstat shows activity, but I have no way find what process is causing the activity unless there is some hidden gstat option I'm unaware of. to be more clear, if I have top -m io in one terminal, I see no movement in the READ/WRITE columns. while polling gstat output I captured an IO "spike" http://pastebin.com/f84nuzxt the percent busy is at 0.00 for every entry with the exception of these spikes. -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"