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 -- Christian Brandt life is short and in most cases it ends with death but my tombstone will carry the hiscore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html