linux-ext4 - Re: fsck.ext4 taking months

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Date:	Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:21:41 +0200
From:	Christian Brandt <brandtc@...5.com>
To:	Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@...hat.com>
CC:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fsck.ext4 taking months

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

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Christian Brandt

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