Jails on ZFS yielding 100% load on gstat

Marco Steinbach coco at executive-computing.de
Tue Aug 14 10:48:02 UTC 2018


On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 08:09:00 -0600
Alan Somers <asomers at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Jails probably aren't the source of your problem.  You need to find
> out what process or processes are responsible for all this activity.
> Since the write bandwidth is fairly low, you might have a process
> that's sync(2)ing or fsync(2)ing. too often.  "gstat -o" will show if
> that's the case.  You can also try running "top -mio" to see which
> processes are doing the most I/O.
> 
> -Alan

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Thank you for hinting me to the -o flag of gstat, very useful.


MfG CoCo


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