> 
> Offlist/OT - Sheer guess, straight out of my parts - maybe a cronjob to 
> rebuild the locate db or something similar is hammering it once a week?

In the problem condition, there appears to be very little going on on the 
system. eg.,

root@server5:/tmp# /usr/local/bin/top
last pid:  3828;  load avg:  4.29,  3.95,  3.84;       up 6+23:11:4407:12:47
79 processes: 78 sleeping, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 73.0% idle,  0.0% user, 27.0% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap
Memory: 2048M phys mem, 32M free mem, 16G total swap, 16G free swap

   PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME    CPU COMMAND
   784 root      17  60  -20   88M  632K sleep  270:03 13.02% nfsd
  2694 root       1  59    0 1376K  672K sleep    1:45  0.69% touch
  3814 root       5  59    0   30M 3928K sleep    0:00  0.32% pkgserv
  3763 root       1  60    0 8400K 1256K sleep    0:02  0.20% zfs
  3826 root       1  52    0 3516K 2004K cpu/1    0:00  0.05% top
  3811 root       1  59    0 7668K 1732K sleep    0:00  0.02% pkginfo
  1323 noaccess  18  59    0  119M 1660K sleep    4:47  0.01% java
   174 root      50  59    0 8796K 1208K sleep    1:47  0.01% nscd
   332 root       1  49    0 2480K  456K sleep    0:06  0.01% dhcpagent
     8 root      15  59    0   14M  640K sleep    0:07  0.01% svc.startd
  1236 root       1  59    0   15M 5172K sleep    2:06  0.01% Xorg
  1281 root       1  59    0   11M  544K sleep    1:00  0.00% dtgreet
 26068 root       1 100  -20 2680K 1416K sleep    0:01  0.00% xntpd
   582 root       4  59    0 6884K 1232K sleep    1:22  0.00% inetd
   394 daemon     2  60  -20 2528K  508K sleep    5:54  0.00% lockd

Regards
Tom Crane

> 
> On 6/13/12 3:47 AM, tpc...@mklab.ph.rhul.ac.uk wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >     I have been advised to enquire here on zfs-discuss with the
> > ZFS problem described below, following discussion on Usenet NG
> > comp.unix.solaris.  The full thread should be available here
> > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.unix.solaris/uEQzz1t-G1s
> >
> > Many thanks
> > Tom Crane
> 


-- 
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Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, England. 
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