Strange problem with... ZFS? Disk? Controller?

[Alex Povolotsky]

On 12/22/12 13:25, Mark Felder wrote:
> Try running diskinfo -t /dev/...
>
> If it says your device is really slow it's probably dying. I'd suspect it's having trouble seeking.
>
It was a break-in. Some dumb php script running with user privileges 
managed FreeBSD to hang on disk io up to stopping responding to anything 
besides reset.

Alex