Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx>: >> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:31:42AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: >>> 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. >> Indeed. The journal is 128 megs, as I recall. So even if the journal >> was completely full, if it's taking 800 seconds, that's a write rate >> of 0.16 Mb/S (164 kb/second). That is indeed way too slow. > > The problem seems to be with the external journal which I recently > changed to. It's a 32GB partition. My timings seem to indicate that > ALL OF IT was being replayed > But you also saw this with an internal journal? Perhaps you have uncovered 2 bugs ... :) TBH external journals probably aren't tested that much (though they certainly should work) I'll give it a quick sanity test on ext4. -Eric _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
