Arch was still running ok on my pi. Something else went wrong. All hashing units where marked as DEAD. Still this is a great improvement over locked up Raspbian. Unfortunately I didn't have logging on so I can't get more info then copying the output to the clipboard and it would seem that it is at least an hour after it would be useful but here is what I have. I am using quotas and failover only enabled.
[root@cgminerPi1 ~]# screen -r -x cgminer
(5s):0.000 (avg):75.42Gh/s | A:2150459 R:30463 HW:14696 WU:1047.7/m
ST: 3 SS: 0 NB: 331 LW: 2313387 GF: 7 RF: 0
Connected to multiple pools with block change notify
Block: 0003b4fc27ef24fc... Diff:268M Started: [10:33:46] Best share: 668K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
BAJ 0: max 43C 3.57V | DEAD /4.632Gh/s | A:131015 R:1470 HW: 2 WU: 64.6/m
BAJ 1: max 42C 3.91V | DEAD /4.922Gh/s | A:142279 R:2149 HW: 8 WU: 68.8/m
BAJ 2: max 43C 3.82V | DEAD /5.003Gh/s | A:142971 R:2087 HW: 7 WU: 69.8/m
BAJ 3: max 44C 3.47V | DEAD /4.914Gh/s | A:139776 R:2058 HW: 18 WU: 68.7/m
BAJ 4: max 39C 4.13V | DEAD /5.521Gh/s | A:157598 R:2280 HW: 5 WU: 77.4/m
BAJ 5: max 39C 3.31V | DEAD /4.597Gh/s | A:128550 R:2002 HW:5407 WU: 61.8/m
BAJ 6: max 43C 3.47V | DEAD /4.888Gh/s | A:137059 R:1983 HW:2244 WU: 67.4/m
BAJ 7: max 42C 3.54V | DEAD /5.107Gh/s | A:144443 R:2096 HW: 8 WU: 71.5/m
BAJ 8: max 39C 3.95V | DEAD /5.138Gh/s | A:151119 R:1945 HW: 5 WU: 71.7/m
BAJ 9: max 43C 2.42V | DEAD /5.305Gh/s | A:152625 R:2218 HW: 3 WU: 74.3/m
BAJ 10: max 42C 3.85V | DEAD /5.054Gh/s | A:146923 R:2257 HW: 2 WU: 70.6/m
BAJ 11: max 42C 3.86V | DEAD /5.244Gh/s | A:151094 R:2196 HW: 4 WU: 73.4/m
BAJ 12: max 41C 3.84V | DEAD /5.174Gh/s | A:141698 R:1875 HW:5819 WU: 69.9/m
BAJ 13: max 34C 3.59V | DEAD /4.507Gh/s | A: 69622 R:1053 HW:1160 WU: 61.7/m
BAJ 14: max 37C 3.69V | DEAD /4.487Gh/s | A: 65162 R: 869 HW: 1 WU: 62.7/m
BAJ 15: max 41C 4.09V | DEAD /4.844Gh/s | A: 75049 R:1184 HW: 1 WU: 67.8/m
BAJ 16: max 38C 3.21V | DEAD /4.747Gh/s | A: 73476 R: 709 HW: 2 WU: 66.0/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[2013-10-23 15:39:01] Pool 2 difficulty changed to 29.213822
[2013-10-24 09:05:08] Stratum from pool 3 detected new block
[2013-10-24 09:05:20] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2013-10-24 09:05:30] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2013-10-24 09:05:31] Stratum connection to pool 3 interrupted
[2013-10-24 09:07:47] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2013-10-24 09:14:34] Stratum from pool 3 detected new block
[2013-10-24 09:16:42] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2013-10-24 09:18:38] Stratum from pool 3 detected new block
[2013-10-24 09:18:43] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2013-10-24 09:25:49] Stratum connection to pool 3 interrupted
[2013-10-24 09:31:32] Stratum from pool 3 detected new block
[2013-10-24 09:31:35] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2013-10-24 09:32:21] Stratum from pool 2 detected new block
[2013-10-24 09:34:44] Stratum from pool 3 detected new block
[2013-10-24 09:36:43] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2013-10-24 09:46:01] Stratum connection to pool 3 interrupted
[2013-10-24 10:01:22] Stratum from pool 3 detected new block
[2013-10-24 10:01:58] Stratum from pool 3 detected new block
[2013-10-24 10:03:20] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2013-10-24 10:06:04] Stratum connection to pool 3 interrupted
[2013-10-24 10:06:28] Stratum from pool 3 detected new block
[2013-10-24 10:08:28] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2013-10-24 10:09:44] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2013-10-24 10:13:30] Stratum from pool 3 detected new block
[2013-10-24 10:13:31] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2013-10-24 10:26:15] Stratum connection to pool 3 interrupted
[2013-10-24 10:26:24] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2013-10-24 10:32:12] Stratum from pool 3 detected new block
[2013-10-24 10:33:03] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2013-10-24 10:33:46] Stratum from pool 3 detected new block
[2013-10-24 10:33:53] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2013-10-24 10:46:35] Stratum connection to pool 3 interrupted
[2013-10-24 11:06:46] Stratum connection to pool 3 interrupted