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Subject: Re: ZFS: Strange performance issues
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Carl Chave wrote:
> relatively idle. You can request a more accurate view of current
> bandwidth usage by specifying
> an interval.

Thanks Carl,

I was aware of the option, the posted stats were from:

# zpool iostat -v 10

with the 10s period wholly within the ~40s transfer time.

King regards,

Chris