George Steel [li...@netglue.co] wrote: > > When writing to the disk(s), the whole system becomes incredibly slow > until the write operation has finished. I've used dd to make 10GB files > and then timed simple operations like ls and compared this to other > OpenBSD servers I've got with single SATA drives - on the machine with > the RAID card, ls takes 7 seconds to execute and the write operation > takes 65 sec, on another OpenBSD server I have, the same operation takes > 0.1 and 90 sec respectively. >
When it is blocking, what does the WAIT column in top show for the affected process? Is it "buf_nee" (buf_needva)?
