On Dienstag 24 August 2004 19:34, Jari Ruusu wrote: > David Gümbel wrote: > > On Monday 23 August 2004 19:37, Jari Ruusu wrote: > > > 2) what file system soft block sizes are you using > > > > How do I determine / check these? (When creating the filesystem, I > > don't think I specified it, i.e. I ran an "mke2fs -j /dev/loop0" after > > losetup-ing. But that was a long time ago ;) > > tune2fs -l /dev/loop0 ..says: Block size: 4096 (The same on the unencrypted /usr (hda7) and /var (hda6)) > Any special mount options in /etc/fstab ? /dev/hda8 /home ext3 noauto,loop=/dev/loop0,encryption=AES128 /dev/hda9 none swap sw,loop=/dev/loop6,encryption=AES128 /dev/hda5 /tmp reiserfs noatime,noauto,loop=/dev/loop1,encryption=AES128 => no, I don't think so. > Any non-default lo_prealloc= values in /etc/modprobe.conf ? No, never touched that file. marsupilami root # cat /etc/modprobe.conf | grep -i lo_prealloc marsupilami root # cat /etc/modprobe.conf | grep -i loop alias block-major-7-* loop alias loop-xfer-gen-0 loop_gen alias loop-xfer-3 loop_fish2 alias loop-xfer-gen-10 loop_gen > > * a pretty certain way to trigger it is to fire up my KMail and work > > with it. I have a 1.4 GB ~/Mail, with some pretty large folders, some > > in mbox (e.g. inbox, 86 MB or an archive of older inbox contents, ~350 > > MB)), some in maildir format. So maybe it's somehow linked to access to > > large files on encrypted ext3, and/or a larger number of open files. > > OK, then I need to test huge directories with some 'syncing' application. > I installed kmail on my test box, but as of this writing ~/Mail dir has > only few zero length files. Maybe this output is useful (lsof at the time of writing of this mail): marsupilami root # lsof | grep kontact | grep home kontact 8670 guembel cwd DIR 7,0 8192 832392 /home/guembel kontact 8670 guembel mem REG 7,0 33 807034 /home/guembel/Mail/.outbox.index kontact 8670 guembel mem REG 7,0 18467 800695 /home/guembel/Mail/.drafts.index kontact 8670 guembel mem REG 7,0 1014723 807033 /home/guembel/Mail/.inbox.index kontact 8670 guembel 16u REG 7,0 0 799865 /home/guembel/Mail/outbox kontact 8670 guembel 17u REG 7,0 33 807034 /home/guembel/Mail/.outbox.index kontact 8670 guembel 18u REG 7,0 2031635 799941 /home/guembel/Mail/drafts kontact 8670 guembel 19u REG 7,0 18467 800695 /home/guembel/Mail/.drafts.index kontact 8670 guembel 20u REG 7,0 89285696 801947 /home/guembel/Mail/inbox kontact 8670 guembel 21u REG 7,0 1014723 807033 /home/guembel/Mail/.inbox.index kontact 8670 guembel 31u REG 7,0 9632683 147099 /home/guembel/Mail/.Mailinglisten.directory/linux-crypto ml kontact 8670 guembel 32u REG 7,0 837427 147695 /home/guembel/Mail/.Mailinglisten.directory/.linux-crypto ml.index kontact 8670 guembel 128r DIR 7,0 4096 228945 /home/guembel/.kde3.1/share/apps/kabc (I am using KDE 3.3, but that shouldn't really matter) > Someone, possibly you, posting a script or clear "do this, that, and > that" instructions would be of great help. No errors on my testing so > far. I shall try to write such a thing ASAP. Regards, David
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