Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (May 16), Scott Long said: > >>Actually, bgfsck unconditionally inserts a delay into every 8th i/o >>operation to try to keep from saturating the disks. Unfortunately >>this isn't terribly sophisticated and it results in bgfsck taking an >>eternity whether the system is idle, loaded, or reniced. > > > See http://dan.allantgroup.com/FreeBSD/fsck_ffs.diff for a patch that > removes the delay if it's at the minimum value, and more fairly > calculates disk wait time. This cuts bgfsck time from ~4 hours to 20 > minutes on my 36gb /usr. > Looks like a reasonable fix. Do you want it reviewed and committed? ScottReceived on Sun May 16 2004 - 08:13:56 UTC
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