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From: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Slow response from lvs and vgs commands
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:28:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54C8ABD0.4090402@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcfVV-KGCWda4fKdtVdo=xGQftCU8kURoqR6PDuLKz15wpKqg@mail.gmail.com>

Dne 27.1.2015 v 16:04 Marcos Dutra napsal(a):
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have the same problem when I use vgs command, so I used vgs -vvv command and
> it was slow when the output command showed me this "Archiving volume group
> "vgoracle" metadata (seqno 3)", I have many vgs with this status, Archiving
> volume group xxx, Is it normal? What can I do to solve this?
>

If you are creating lots of randomly named VGs - then you'll need to manual 
prune /etc/lvm/archive directory.

When you use consistently the same VG name - you could configure some limits
via lvm.conf settings:

backup/retain_min
backup/retain_days

(Or you could disable backup completely)

Zdenek

      reply	other threads:[~2015-01-28  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-19 21:05 [linux-lvm] Slow response from lvs and vgs commands John Griffith
2015-01-19 22:21 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2015-01-19 22:58   ` John Griffith
2015-01-27 15:04     ` Marcos Dutra
2015-01-28  9:28       ` Zdenek Kabelac [this message]

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