Re: fsck in -current

From: Dan Nelson <dnelson_at_allantgroup.com>
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 12:39:54 -0500
In the last episode (May 16), Scott Long said:
> 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?

Sure.  I don't remember why I bumped up the max wait time to 2.5 sec,
though.  That's probably too long.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson_at_allantgroup.com
Received on Sun May 16 2004 - 08:40:10 UTC

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