From: Christian Brandt Subject: Re: fsck.ext4 taking months Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:21:41 +0200 Message-ID: <4D923F55.1010507@psi5.com> References: <4D8F1F75.8010201@psi5.com> <4D909E92.4080209@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Ric Wheeler Return-path: Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:59304 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752238Ab1C2UVn (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:21:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4D909E92.4080209@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- Christian Brandt life is short and in most cases it ends with death but my tombstone will carry the hiscore