From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dexen deVries Subject: Re: nilfs2 not garbage collecting Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:17:30 +0200 Message-ID: <2382169.a90FXUemaH@coil> References: <3170A27E-46DD-4347-8F9B-FBF4BB4E0205@dubeyko.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:x-face:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=ir/+Xvax7ys9rSK7fD5Gc95j0MLdymbgdEAiFfvjJwY=; b=ghFJwjNVDlwPQhEV229oGGVCWwITWtxHIbqnKgfSOBGWnliExTXzR+bCL50n/0OpTD TaOujbVUO1XSj40LlTMLUxBCMHIoT8myuVEZwb2BNPERraIuO3JN6yScTKQiMQROcEv1 uQpQajAjGVB8khj3pXJ1Zsc/m2EWI8zYMxv1GvpVenRMVNKA8cO63KwYEVjoZiW1y3Z/ RCK13CDZHIVVLSnkPYmnmczeSLNGpUvlL04GTV/xM8zmQV1Jkks3b8TBoU6kWmfFqSDp tgp9BJwIMAV4dWOPRtjWSMhGG93orr/YzDEctpiUAO7rZBM6c4pJyMIh6bPiOoLMSURj f7xw== In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-nilfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: linux-nilfs Cc: Paolo Giangrandi On Thursday 09 of August 2012 12:33:09 you wrote: > I'm having some issues at uploading the compressed image (it's "just" > 2.3GB, but with my current connection it would take days, I'll upload > it on september). >=20 > Meanwhile nilfs_cleanerd managed to free some more space (over 1GB), > although nothing has changed since yesterday, thus everything seems > back to normality. > Thanks for the help and see you in september! when i'm in a pinch and want cleanerd to free up some space, i run: # while true; do killall -HUP nilfs_cleanerd; sleep 4; done each `HUP' signal causes cleanerd to both re-read config and run single= pass. i then monitor progress with # iostat -dk 1 /dev/sda to see if it is moving data around. if not, i lower `protection_period'= in=20 /etc/nilfs_cleanerd.conf; I usually have it set to 7 to 14 days on pers= onal=20 computers, but when /really/ in a squeeze for free space, i lower it to= 24h. you may also want to increase `nsegments_per_clean' in nilfs_cleanerd.c= onf to=20 3 (but not much more; each segment causes up to 8MB of read and write u= pon=20 each cleanerd pass). cheers, --=20 dexen deVries [[[=E2=86=93][=E2=86=92]]] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html