From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Paul Collins <paul@burly.ondioline.org>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tune2fs -I 256 -- kind of slow?
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:17:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081014111759.GA8674@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d4i3lr3u.fsf@burly.wgtn.ondioline.org>
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:48:05PM +1300, Paul Collins wrote:
> I just ran "tune2fs -I 256 /dev/sda3" and it took about an hour and
> forty minutes. The filesystem is about 33GiB, 3/4 full, ~85,000 inodes.
> The machine is a 2.13GHz Core 2 Duo, SATA disk. It seemed to be
> CPU-bound, soaking up a core for the whole run. Does this sound right?
>
> Running e2fsprogs 1.41.3-1 from Debian unstable.
You're not the first person to have reported this. I don't think
anyone has had a chance to look at it, but it's something we clearly
need to pay attention to --- 33 GB isn't that big of a filesystem, as
filesystems go, and an hour and a half and being CPU bound is not a
good thing.
- Ted
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2008-10-14 4:48 tune2fs -I 256 -- kind of slow? Paul Collins
2008-10-14 11:17 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
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