> > 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 > -- Tom Crane, Dept. Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, England. Email: t.cr...@rhul.ac.uk Fax: +44 (0) 1784 472794 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss