From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Zarochentsev Subject: Re: when will it end? Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 07:34:43 +0400 Message-ID: <20041027033443.GE25932@backtop.namesys.com> References: <417EF280.10003@slaphack.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <417EF280.10003@slaphack.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Masover Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 07:57:36PM -0500, David Masover wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have 512 megs of RAM and one 200 gig hard drive (effectively 177 gig > filesystem) that is 86% full. I started the reiser4 repacker two days > ago, with very minimal system use since then (an hour or two a day of > playing music and reading email). See below for my df and top. > > Thankfully, the kernel seems intelligent enough about memory management > that once things other than Doom 3 start, they run reasonably smoothly, > even video (must be that anticipatory IO scheduler). > > Three questions: When will it end? How can I kill it if I get sick of > waiting? try this: echo 0 > /sys/fs/riser4/hda5/repacker/start > Is it conceivable that the repacker could be optimized to run > faster? current repacker code state is 'unsupported', it is even removed from the latest -mm kernels. Namesys plans are to make the repacker proprietary. -- Alex.