From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Subject: [Bug 39072] jbd2 writes on disk every few seconds Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 03:49:00 GMT Message-ID: <201107100349.p6A3n0db004255@demeter1.kernel.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from demeter1.kernel.org ([140.211.167.39]:59983 "EHLO demeter1.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755264Ab1GJDtC (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jul 2011 23:49:02 -0400 Received: from demeter1.kernel.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by demeter1.kernel.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p6A3n1hi004257 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 03:49:01 GMT In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39072 Theodore Tso changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |tytso@mit.edu --- Comment #1 from Theodore Tso 2011-07-10 03:48:59 --- By enabling the jbd2_run_stats tracepoint, I'm seeing a handful of handles getting started every 5 seconds. If I go into single user mode, with all user daemons killed off, jbd2 doesn't trigger. So it's one of the userspace daemons which is causing file system activity. I don't know why iotop isn't showing the activity, but I'm pretty sure that's a shortcoming of iotop. I'll add some jbd2 trace points so we can see what is constantly starting jbd2 handles. But my quick testing seems to indicate to me that jbd2 is functioning correctly, and it's active because something from userspace is ticking the file system. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching the assignee of the bug.