One last tidbit, for what it is worth. Rather than watch top, I ran xcpustate. It seems that just as the writes pause, the cpu looks like it hits 100% (or very close), then it falls back down to its lower level.
I'm still getting used to Solaris 10 as well, so if you have a DTrace script you'd recommend me running, please feel free to suggest it. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss