Thanks to both of you.
@VictorSTS
Will do, that might give me some insight.
@UdoB
That is a very valueable hint that i will definitely try with the remaining PBS tats needs to be deployed.
For other readers:
I had success in cutting down...
Find out yourself with your hardware:
apt install sysstat
Start two terminals:
iostat -dx 2
top -H
Increase readers until the load on iostat for every disk is ~90% (or some lower limit to leave headroom for other activities on the same zpool)...