From: Christian Brandt <brandtc@psi5.com>
To: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fsck.ext4 taking months
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:21:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D923F55.1010507@psi5.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D909E92.4080209@redhat.com>
Am 28.03.2011 16:43, schrieb Ric Wheeler:
> Sounds like a configuration that might well require lots of memory to
> cache your allocated inodes, etc. How much memory do you have in the
> box running fsck? Any sense (vmstat, etc) what the box is spending
> its time doing?
100% CPU use as seen in top and ps.
The first System had 1GB and the process used 680MB, a plain Ubuntu
with nothing else running.
I tried another system with 4GB, at least 3GB free, the process still
uses only 680MB. Booted from a Knoppix-CD, nothing running except fsck,
vmstat says:
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system--
----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy
id wa
1 0 0 1573456 797988 776484 0 0 13 8 7 18 41 5
53 2
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Christian Brandt
life is short and in most cases it ends with death
but my tombstone will carry the hiscore
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-29 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-27 11:28 fsck.ext4 taking months Christian Brandt
2011-03-28 14:43 ` Ric Wheeler
2011-03-29 6:03 ` Rogier Wolff
2011-03-29 20:26 ` Christian Brandt
2011-03-30 8:45 ` Rogier Wolff
2011-03-29 20:21 ` Christian Brandt [this message]
2011-03-28 15:07 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-03-28 15:47 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-03-29 22:02 ` Christian Brandt
2011-03-30 8:34 ` Rogier Wolff
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