7.1-PRERELEASE: arcmsr write performance problem

[Mike Tancsa]

At 02:58 PM 12/15/2008, Paul MacKenzie wrote:

>This used to be on a 4.11x system with 1 cpu and only 1gb of ram and 
>ran flawlessly with much less resources with the same web site code 
>for a long time. I do not have this problem on the other 7.0 
>machine. I originally thought it was just a cpu issue but it is very 
>closely tied to when something is trying to use the raid arrays and 
>this seems to be the way to reproduce it.
>
>I am having a hard time determining why the system load is so high. 
>Can you recommend the best way to identify the culprit?

What does top -S show ? Most of the load is in system.  Does the 
machine in question have a rather large master.passwd file by chance ?
(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=75855)
         ---Mike