There was another thread yesterday describing similar symptoms. This sounds 
like OS-5123.

https://smartos.org/bugview/OS-5213 <https://smartos.org/bugview/OS-5213>

So I'll ask you the same question I asked before:
When ps hangs, the process that prints immediately after the hang, does it have 
a very large memory allocation? (10s of GBs?)

-- 
Brian Bennett
Systems Engineer, Cloud Operations
Joyent, Inc. | www.joyent.com <http://www.joyent.com/>

> On Oct 13, 2017, at 10:36 AM, Len Weincier <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Throughout the day we have had a host that “pauses” for a bit in the GZ, 
> especially commands like ps and prstat are very slow (up to 100 seconds)
> Digging around I managed to find the /proc system was being unresponsive when 
> this happens. truss says that opening /proc/PID/… files takes up to a second.
> 
> The problem comes and goes,  so far its unpredictable. Any pointers where we 
> can look ? Has anyone seen this before ?
> 
> Thanks
> Len
> 

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