Re: Hang running fs_mark

[Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>]

On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 21:01 -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> Chris Mason wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 18:58 -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> >   
> >>> I'm at 6.9 million files so far on a 500GB disk, and not surprisingly, I
> >>> get  155 files/sec ;)  My hope is that we're spinning around due to bad
> >>> accounting on the reserved extents, and that Yan's latest patch set will
> >>> fix it.
> >>>
> >>> -chris
> >>>       
> >> I can update & restart my test as well. It is an odd box (8 CPUs, only 
> >> 1GB of DRAM and a single large 1TB s-ata drive). Hopefully useful in 
> >> testing out edge conditions ;-)
> >>     
> >
> > I'll push out Yan's patches tomorrow.  My box here is at 17.5 million
> > files and still going at 148 files/sec
> >   
> Sounds like a plan, thanks!

I turned up a long standing balancing bug while testing Yan's latest
code.  It took forever to track down, but I've finally pushed out his
patches.

My fs_mark run never did stall, but I'm retesting now with all of the
latest changes.  You'll need to pull the latest unstable btrfs-progs and
kernel from git.

-chris