Re: [zfs-discuss] CLI grinds to a halt during backups

2009-03-15 Thread Boom
Here is the info required. PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP 6179 nobody312M 225M sleep 510 12:42:09 0.8% BackupPC_dump/1 7783 root 3812K 2984K cpu7500 0:00:03 0.4% prstat/1 7803 root 2948K 1736K sleep 540 0:00:00 0.0%

Re: [zfs-discuss] CLI grinds to a halt during backups

2009-03-12 Thread Jeff Williams
Maybe you're also seeing this one? 6586537 async zio taskqs can block out userland commands -Jeff Blake wrote: I think we need some data to look at to find out what's being slow. Try some commands like this to get data: prstat -a iostat -x 5 zpool iostat 5 (if you are using ZFS) and then

Re: [zfs-discuss] CLI grinds to a halt during backups

2009-03-12 Thread Blake
I think we need some data to look at to find out what's being slow. Try some commands like this to get data: prstat -a iostat -x 5 zpool iostat 5 (if you are using ZFS) and then report sample output to this list. You might also consider enabling sar (svcadm enable sar), then reading the sar m

[zfs-discuss] CLI grinds to a halt during backups

2009-03-12 Thread Marius van Vuuren
Hi, I have a X4150 with a J4200 connected populated with 12 x 1 TB Disks (SATA) I run backup_pc as my software for backing up. Is there anything I can do to make the command line more responsive during backup windows? At the moment it grinds to a complete standstill. Thanks