What does vmstat look like ? Also zpool iostat 1. Do you have any disk based swap ?
One best practice we probably will be coming out with is to configure at least physmem of swap with ZFS (at least as of this release). The partly hung system could be this : http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6429205 6429205 each zpool needs to monitor it's throughput and throttle heavy writers The fix state is "in-progress". What throughput do you get for the full untar (untared size / elapse time) ? -r _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss