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From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.de>
To: Jorg Bornschein <jb@capsec.org>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Very slow balance / btrfs-transaction
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 19:07:17 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fce777cb-027f-532b-76ab-24a1e5c2cf7c@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8999d95dac21ea8e2908c5012e50c59b@88cbed2449cf>



On 02/03/2017 06:30 PM, Jorg Bornschein wrote:
> February 3, 2017 11:26 PM, "Goldwyn Rodrigues" <rgoldwyn@suse.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm currently running a balance (without any filters) on a 4 drives raid1 filesystem. The array
>>> contains 3 3TB drives and one 6TB drive; I'm running the rebalance because the 6TB drive recently
>>> replaced a 2TB drive.
>>>
>>> I know that balance is not supposed to be a fast operation, but this one is now running for ~6 days
>>> and it managed to balance ~18% (754 out of about 4250 chunks balanced (755 considered), 82% left)
>>> -- so I expect it to take another ~4 weeks.
>>>
>>> That seems excessively slow for ~8TiB of data.
>>>
>>> Is this expected behavior? In case it's not: Is there anything I can do to help debug it?
>>
>> Do you have quotas enabled?
> 
> 
> I might have activated it when playing with "snapper" -- I remember using some quota command without knowing what it does. 
> 
> How can I check its active? Shall I just disable it wit "btrfs quota disable"? 
> 

To check your quota limits:
# btrfs qgroup show <mountpoint>

To disable
# btrfs quota disable <mountpoint>

Yes, please check if disabling quotas makes a difference in execution
time of btrfs balance.

-- 
Goldwyn

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-04  1:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-03 22:13 Very slow balance / btrfs-transaction jb
2017-02-03 23:25 ` Goldwyn Rodrigues
2017-02-04  0:30 ` Jorg Bornschein
2017-02-04  1:07   ` Goldwyn Rodrigues [this message]
2017-02-04  1:47   ` Jorg Bornschein
2017-02-04  2:55     ` Lakshmipathi.G
2017-02-04  8:22       ` Duncan
2017-02-06  1:45     ` Qu Wenruo
2017-02-06 16:09       ` Goldwyn Rodrigues
2017-02-07  0:22         ` Qu Wenruo
2017-02-07 15:55           ` Filipe Manana
2017-02-08  0:39             ` Qu Wenruo
2017-02-08 13:56               ` Filipe Manana
2017-02-09  1:13                 ` Qu Wenruo
2017-02-06  9:14     ` Jorg Bornschein
2017-02-06  9:29       ` Qu Wenruo
2017-02-04 20:50   ` Jorg Bornschein
2017-02-04 21:10     ` Kai Krakow
2017-02-06 13:19       ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-02-07 19:47         ` Kai Krakow
2017-02-07 19:58           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-07-01 14:24 Sidney San Martín

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