Re: Mount and file system size issue

[Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>]

Hello!

On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 12:42:21PM -0700, bo wrote:

>    >reiserfs: warning: CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is set On
>    >reiserfs: warning:  -it is slow mode for debugging
>    >reiserfs:  checking transaction log(device 21:01)

Hm. Would it help if you turn of CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK config item?

> ???   It took 2-3 seconds(1 out of 5), or 3-4 munites(1 out of 5)
>         or forever(3 out of 5) to complete.

All of that on the same filesystem (with same contents)?

> System status at this time: from another console( run "top")
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>   1:40am  up  1:40,  2 users,  load average: 8.62, 7.71, 4.81
> 37 processes: 30 sleeping, 6 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  0.3% user, 99.6% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle

Ok, all the time is spent in kernel.
Can you capture several traces for us please?
( several sysrq-p and/or sysrq-t outputs when this happens).

> Swap: 262576K av,   4204K used, 258372K free                  4160K cached
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
>     3 root      16   0     0    0     0 RW      0 34.0  0.0   7:16 kswapd
>  1283 root      17   0  4956 4956   520 R       0 13.1 16.5   0:56
> mkreiserfs

Hm. Mkreiserfs? I though you expirience the promlems when you
try to mount 120G filesystem, no?

Bye,
    Olet