Re: what is fsck's "slowdown"?

From: Don Lewis <truckman_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 23:59:04 -0700 (PDT)
On  4 Sep, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Don Lewis wrote:

>> Would the file system in question happen to be full of UNREF files that
>> fsck is deleting?
> 
> mostly 'ZERO LENGTH DIRECTORY' ...

Hmn, this may be something else then, possibly the buffer lookup in
getdatablk().  It would be very interesting to compile/link a profiled
version of fsck and see what shows up as the hot spot.  Are you using
the default value for MAXBUFSPACE (defined in fsck.h).
Received on Sat Sep 04 2004 - 04:59:12 UTC

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