7.1-PRERELEASE: arcmsr write performance problem

[Paul MacKenzie]

> Is the high load average simply a function of processes blocking on
> network io ? On our av/spam scanners for example show a high load avg
> because there are many processes waiting on network io to complete
> (e.g. talking to RBL lists, waiting for DCC servers to complete etc)
>
> Also, is it really related to the arcmsr driver ? i.e. if you did the
> same tasks on a single IDE drive, is the performance profile going to
> be the same ?
>
>         ---Mike
>
I wondered if possibly my problem is related to this issue 104406?

[ufs] Processes get stuck in "ufs" state under persistent CPU load

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=104406&cat=

As the processes do get stuck in the ufs mode from what I can tell.

I am going to be replacing the RAID card tomorrow to make sure it is not
the card despite the lack of errors.

If so I wondered if there was any way to quickly determine via
programming which process is stuck and  to get it unstuck as a temporary
workaround? The problem reports mentions using  'kill
-STOP' and continued with 'kill -CONT', which allows other processes to
access the filesystem (until another such failure occurs).

I just need to be able to determine which process is the one stuck in a
relatively easy manner.

Thanks,

Paul