Lethargic rpi3, but seemingly still running

[John-Mark Gurney]

bob prohaska wrote this message on Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 08:18 -0700:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 10:58:11AM +0100, Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote:
> > bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > Every once in a while bsdtar will use a fraction of a percent of cpu, but
> > > that seems to be all that's happening. The timestamp updates every other
> > > second, typing echoes as expected but something like pwd takes twenty
> > > seconds to answer. The controlling terminal for portmaster-devel has been
> > > sitting at
> > 
> > What's your I/O like?
> > 
> > systat -v 1
> > 
> 
> The machine got past the bottleneck and is running normally now, but
> I'll try it the next time the machine bogs down. Does systat use a
> different measurement method than top?

top doesn't like block device io...  iostat or systat -v 1 will do that.

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