IO fluctuation

[Pieter de Goeje]

On Saturday 21 August 2010 19:48:32 Steffen Neubauer wrote:
> I think I can exclude the ZFS implementation too, because I tried dd
> if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null and executed killall -SIGINFO dd while it was
> copying and it looked like it stalled randomly too.

Not related your problem, but you can press ^T to send SIGINFO to the 
currently running process. Saves some typing :-)

- Pieter