I have a 5 drive raidz2 pool which I have a iscsi share on. While
backing up a MacOS drive to it I noticed some very strange access
patterns, and wanted to know if what I am seeing is normal, or not.

There are times when all five drives are accessed equally, and there
are times when only three of them are seeing any load.

Is this normal? A side effect of the iscsi? A problem?

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a
SunOS home-sun 5.11 snv_101a i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zfs get all main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac
NAME                     PROPERTY              VALUE                  SOURCE
main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac  type                  volume                 -
main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac  creation              Sun Nov 16 10:54 2008  -
main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac  used                  245G                   -
main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac  available             2.16T                  -
main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac  referenced            245G                   -
main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac  compressratio         1.04x                  -
main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac  reservation           none                   default
main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac  volsize               1T                     -
main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac  volblocksize          8K                     -
main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac  checksum              on                     default
main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac  compression           on                     local
main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac  readonly              off                    default
main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac  shareiscsi            on
inherited from main_pool/iscsi
main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac  copies                1                      default
main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac  refreservation        none                   default
main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac  primarycache          all                    default
main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac  secondarycache        all                    default
main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac  usedbysnapshots       0                      -
main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac  usedbydataset         245G                   -
main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac  usedbychildren        0                      -
main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac  usedbyrefreservation  0                      -

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zpool iostat -v main_pool 3
               capacity     operations    bandwidth
pool         used  avail   read  write   read  write
----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
main_pool    852G  3.70T    280    967  2.93M  7.73M
  raidz2     852G  3.70T    280    967  2.93M  7.73M
    c5t5d0      -      -    142    377   712K  2.69M
    c5t3d0      -      -    142    377   714K  2.69M
    c5t4d0      -      -    143    376   714K  2.69M
    c5t2d0      -      -    145    377   712K  2.69M
    c5t1d0      -      -    144    378   713K  2.69M
----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----

               capacity     operations    bandwidth
pool         used  avail   read  write   read  write
----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
main_pool    852G  3.70T    361  1.30K  2.78M  10.1M
  raidz2     852G  3.70T    361  1.30K  2.78M  10.1M
    c5t5d0      -      -    180    502  1.25M  3.57M
    c5t3d0      -      -    205    330  1.30M  2.73M
    c5t4d0      -      -    239    489  1.43M  2.81M
    c5t2d0      -      -    205     17  1.25M  26.1K
    c5t1d0      -      -    248     13  1.41M  25.1K
----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----

               capacity     operations    bandwidth
pool         used  avail   read  write   read  write
----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
main_pool    852G  3.70T     10  2.02K  77.7K  15.8M
  raidz2     852G  3.70T     10  2.02K  77.7K  15.8M
    c5t5d0      -      -      2    921   109K  6.52M
    c5t3d0      -      -      9    691   108K  5.63M
    c5t4d0      -      -      9    962   105K  5.97M
    c5t2d0      -      -      9  1.30K   167K  8.50M
    c5t1d0      -      -      2  1.23K   150K  8.54M
----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----

               capacity     operations    bandwidth
pool         used  avail   read  write   read  write
----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
main_pool    852G  3.70T    306  1.11K  2.36M  8.61M
  raidz2     852G  3.70T    306  1.11K  2.36M  8.61M
    c5t5d0      -      -    216    332  1.27M  2.06M
    c5t3d0      -      -    198    562  1.21M  2.94M
    c5t4d0      -      -    173    437  1.18M  2.52M
    c5t2d0      -      -    160     13  1.06M  26.1K
    c5t1d0      -      -    168     15  1.08M  26.9K
----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ iostat -Xn 3
                    extended device statistics
    r/s    w/s   kr/s   kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c4t0d0
    0.0    0.0    0.2    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    2.2   0   0 c5t0d0
  142.8  373.3  704.1 2719.5  4.1  1.4    8.0    2.8  19  21 c5t1d0
  143.9  373.0  703.6 2719.7  3.9  1.6    7.6    3.0  18  21 c5t2d0
  140.9  372.4  705.1 2719.7 12.2  6.0   23.8   11.8  56  60 c5t3d0
  141.4  371.8  705.4 2720.0 12.1  6.3   23.6   12.4  57  61 c5t4d0
  140.6  372.4  702.8 2719.7 12.1  6.5   23.5   12.6  57  61 c5t5d0
    5.0    0.9  355.5    3.7  0.1  0.0   16.0    1.8   1   1 c3t0d0
    2.3    2.6  176.4  110.4  0.1  0.0   18.4    1.8   1   1 c3t1d0
    1.8    2.2  140.0  109.9  0.1  0.0   31.7    1.9   1   1 c3t2d0
    1.4    1.9  112.4  109.4  0.2  0.0   47.7    2.0   1   1 c3t3d0
                    extended device statistics
    r/s    w/s   kr/s   kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c4t0d0
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c5t0d0
    1.0 1071.5   43.9 8101.0 14.4  0.4   13.4    0.4  43  43 c5t1d0
    1.3 1219.6   44.6 8144.5 15.6  0.5   12.8    0.4  47  47 c5t2d0
    0.0  962.5    0.0 6174.6 34.0  1.0   35.3    1.0 100 100 c5t3d0
    0.0  591.4    0.0 3460.8 34.0  1.0   57.5    1.7 100 100 c5t4d0
    0.0  846.8    0.0 5818.8 32.0  3.0   37.8    3.5 100 100 c5t5d0
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c3t0d0
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c3t1d0
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c3t2d0
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c3t3d0
                    extended device statistics
    r/s    w/s   kr/s   kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c4t0d0
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c5t0d0
   13.0    0.0   39.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.8   0   1 c5t1d0
    0.3    0.0    0.8    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.1   0   0 c5t2d0
   15.3  300.7  100.3 2311.1 10.7  0.4   33.9    1.1  34  35 c5t3d0
    0.0  514.4    0.0 3572.0 34.0  1.0   66.1    1.9 100 100 c5t4d0
   14.0  360.4   76.0 2705.1 16.8  1.6   44.9    4.4  53  55 c5t5d0
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c3t0d0
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c3t1d0
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c3t2d0
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c3t3d0
                    extended device statistics
    r/s    w/s   kr/s   kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c4t0d0
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c5t0d0
  205.2   20.2 1295.9   56.7  0.4  0.1    1.7    0.7  14  15 c5t1d0
  161.9   20.9 1186.6   58.1  0.2  0.2    1.1    1.3   9  13 c5t2d0
  159.3   18.3 1080.3   45.8  0.2  0.1    1.1    0.8   9  15 c5t3d0
  161.5  301.9 1167.0 1477.7 17.4  0.7   37.5    1.4  64  65 c5t4d0
  201.4   18.9 1245.0   46.2  0.1  0.2    0.6    0.9   8  17 c5t5d0
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c3t0d0
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c3t1d0
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c3t2d0
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c3t3d0
                    extended device statistics
    r/s    w/s   kr/s   kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c4t0d0
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c5t0d0
    0.7 1300.0   23.0 8263.1 16.7  0.5   12.9    0.4  50  50 c5t1d0
    1.0 1124.4   45.2 8353.2 14.6  0.4   13.0    0.4  44  44 c5t2d0
    0.0 1021.1    0.0 6676.0 33.9  1.0   33.2    1.0 100 100 c5t3d0
    0.0 1017.3    0.0 6769.4 33.9  1.0   33.4    1.0 100 100 c5t4d0
    0.0  769.6    0.0 5308.2 33.9  1.0   44.1    1.3 100 100 c5t5d0
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c3t0d0
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c3t1d0
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c3t2d0
    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c3t3d0

Thanks,
Charles
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