On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:29:39PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 13:32, Matt Bernstein wrote: > > > My fsck is on an Opteron, it's entirely CPU-bound, occupying about 1.4G of > > my 2G RAM, stuck in pass 2 six days in. My strace isn't picking up any > > calls. > > > > My question is basically the same as Darryl's. How long do I give it? What sort of messages was e2fsck printing beforehand? > Which version of e2fsprogs? There were some serious algorithmic > inefficiencies in some really old versions that could explain this sort > of thing. "Very old" here means version _before_ e2fsprogs 1.28 (released August 31, 2002). So if you are using a distribution which is more than three years old (in an industry where two years == infinity :-), that's almost certainly the explanation. - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
