This is what btrfs looks like to me
top - 16:06:23 up 108 days, 5:56, 1 user, load average: 17.14, 14.96, 11.48 Tasks: 173 total, 1 running, 172 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.3%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 34.4%id, 63.9%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 4039940k total, 2328376k used, 1711564k free, 26320k buffers Swap: 7812092k total, 291284k used, 7520808k free, 1104092k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2421 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 12157:11 btrfs-endio-wri
247 root 20 0 0 0 0 D 0 0.0 9976:30 btrfs-transacti
24408 dustin 20 0 188m 4100 1920 D 1 0.1 7441:25 xastir
2743 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 1521:25 btrfs-delayed-m
2741 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 2 0.0 1306:17 btrfs-endio-met
2376 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 1287:33 btrfs-delalloc-
1893 dustin 20 0 4036 228 204 S 0 0.0 883:52.53 supervise
1242 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 590:11.01 btrfs-worker-1
246 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 588:02.00 btrfs-cleaner
13450 dustin 20 0 48492 13m 1300 S 0 0.4 386:36.76 Xvnc
3543 nobody 20 0 12752 480 416 S 0 0.0 349:09.88 beanstalkd
3782 dustin 20 0 737m 196m 2300 S 0 5.0 323:05.43 java
228 root 20 0 0 0 0 D 0 0.0 302:02.37 btrfs-submit-0
25724 root 20 0 49372 1228 1156 S 1 0.0 280:09.24 soundmodem
2554 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 129:08.00 btrfs-endio-1
1341 root 20 0 140m 1112 1108 S 0 0.0 98:07.63 chef-client
1846 root 20 0 15848 404 316 S 0 0.0 45:12.05 irqbalance
1959 ntp 20 0 28816 860 736 S 0 0.0 42:21.58 ntpd
2584 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 36:53.49 btrfs-endio-met