Hi, The last output (2 days ago) from fsck: [skipped] Block #524296 (1235508688) causes directory to be too big. CLEARED. Block #524297 (4003498426) causes directory to be too big. CLEARED. Block #524298 (3113378389) causes directory to be too big. CLEARED. Block #524299 (1368545889) causes directory to be too big. CLEARED. Too many illegal blocks in inode 4425477. Clear inode? yes --------------------------- iostat output: avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 0.00 0.00 0.00 14.52 0.00 85.48 Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await r_await w_await svctm %util loop0 0.00 0.00 2.00 0.00 12.00 0.00 12.00 0.09 46.00 46.00 0.00 46.00 9.20 sda 0.00 0.00 87.00 0.00 348.00 0.00 8.00 1.00 11.86 11.86 0.00 11.45 99.60 --------------------------- strace ouput: root@rescue ~ # strace -f -t -p 4779 Process 4779 attached - interrupt to quit 07:26:54 lseek(4, 14154266963968, SEEK_SET) = 14154266963968 07:26:54 read(4, "\277\224\312\371\302\356\tJC{P\244#3\"2P\327*2Q5\372\206\262\20\\\373\226\262\21\316"..., 4096) = 4096 07:27:02 lseek(4, 1408506736640, SEEK_SET) = 1408506736640 07:27:02 read(4, "\352\3041\345\1\337p\263l;\354\377E[\17\350\235\260\r\344\265\337\3655\223E\216\226\376\263!\n"..., 4096) = 4096 07:27:08 lseek(4, 5948177264640, SEEK_SET) = 5948177264640 07:27:08 read(4, "\321}\226m;1\253Z\301f\205\235\25\201\334?\311AQN(\22!\23{\345\214Vi\240=y"..., 4096) = 4096 07:27:10 brk(0x8cf18e000) = 0x8cf18e000 07:27:14 lseek(4, 6408024879104, SEEK_SET) = 6408024879104 07:27:14 read(4, "\254n\fn\r\302$\t\213\231\256\2774\326\34\364\fY\v\365`*Br\354X\7T3J\243K"..., 4096) = 4096 07:27:21 lseek(4, 8640894586880, SEEK_SET) = 8640894586880 07:27:21 read(4, "3\372\24\357\3579\254\31\214L\rYrurj\376\250\352%\2\242\255\252\22\347XU\327\235\362\337"..., 4096) = 4096 ^CProcess 4779 detached Regards, Alexander On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:43 PM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Aug 25, 2015, at 9:30 AM, Alexander Afonyashin <a.afonyashin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Recently I had to run fsck on 47TB ext4 partition backed by hardware >> RAID6 (LSI MegaRAID SAS 2108). Right now over 2 weeks passed but fsck >> is not finished yet. It occupies 30GB RSS, almost 35GB VSS and eats >> 100% of single CPU. It detected errors (and fixed them) but doesn't >> finish yet. >> >> Rescue disc is based on Debian 7.8. >> kernel: 4.1.4-5 >> e2fsprogs: 1.42.5-1.1+deb7u1 >> >> Any suggestions? > > Usually the only reason for e2fsck to run so long is because of > duplicate block pass 1b/1c. > > Having some of the actual output of e2fsck would allow us to give > some useful advice. > > The only thing I can offer is for you to run "strace -p <e2fsck_pid>" > and/or "ltrace -p <e2fsck_pid>" to see what it is doing. > > Cheers, Andreas > > > > > -- 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