On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Alexander Leidinger
<[email protected]> wrote:
> How do you measure that nothing is read or written to it?
>
I used zpool iostat -v
> Please check with
> gstat -f '^<DEVICE>$'
> if there are really no reads/writes to the device (please replace <DEVICE>
> with the name of your USB device, e.g. da0).
>
> If you see writes, I would say
> - this is the reason for the load
> - your cache is on the way to be filled with
> useful data
>
I see almost no writes (nor reads)
> If gstat shows zero activity, I suggest to run 'top -S' and look at the
> process(es) which consume about 10% CPU (do not take care about the idle
> process). Based upon this we can maybe suggest further things to
> investigate.
>
Heres the output of that:
CPU: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 11.8% system, 0.0% interrupt, 88.1% idle
Mem: 841M Active, 193M Inact, 5086M Wired, 4876K Cache, 1237M Buf, 5750M Free
Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
11 root 8 171 ki31 0K 128K CPU0 0 ??? 713.62% idle
5 root 5 -8 - 0K 76K zvol:i 5 401.9H 91.16% zfskern
Thanks for your time on looking into this :-)
--
chs,
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