Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> * Curtis Doty <Curtis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: >>> Yesterday Ralf Hildebrandt said: >>> >>>> The journal replay too quite a while. About 800 seconds. >>>> >>> Were there any other background iops on the underlying volume >>> devices? Like maybe raid reconstruction? >> I don't think so. The machine never powered off... > > Again, 2.6.28.7 failed us and now we're encountering another journal > replay. Taking ages. This sucks. > > Questions: > > How can I find out (during normal operation) HOW MUCH of the > journal is actually in use? > > How can I resize the journal to be smaller, thus making a journal > replay faster? > It'd be better to get to the bottom of the problem ... maybe iostat while it's happening to see if IO is actually happening; run blktrace to see where IO is going, do a few sysrq-t's to see where threads are at, etc. Can you find a way to reproduce this at will? Journal replay should *never* take this long, AFAIK. -Eric _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
