On Thursday 09 of August 2012 12:33:09 you wrote: > I'm having some issues at uploading the compressed image (it's "just" > 2.3GB, but with my current connection it would take days, I'll upload > it on september). > > Meanwhile nilfs_cleanerd managed to free some more space (over 1GB), > although nothing has changed since yesterday, thus everything seems > back to normality. > Thanks for the help and see you in september! when i'm in a pinch and want cleanerd to free up some space, i run: # while true; do killall -HUP nilfs_cleanerd; sleep 4; done each `HUP' signal causes cleanerd to both re-read config and run single pass. i then monitor progress with # iostat -dk 1 /dev/sda to see if it is moving data around. if not, i lower `protection_period' in /etc/nilfs_cleanerd.conf; I usually have it set to 7 to 14 days on personal computers, but when /really/ in a squeeze for free space, i lower it to 24h. you may also want to increase `nsegments_per_clean' in nilfs_cleanerd.conf to 3 (but not much more; each segment causes up to 8MB of read and write upon each cleanerd pass). cheers, -- dexen deVries [[[↓][→]]] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
