On 21-Apr-08 My Secret NSA Wiretap Overheard Adrian Chadd Saying : > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008, Nicole wrote: > >> >> I hate replying to my own post, but some further info on this in that quite >> a bit of time that the cache.log is reporting that it is validating entries >> and >> taking quite a bit of time. Why is it going through this validation >> procedure >> and it seems to be taking a great deal of time. Also usually, when this is >> done, it does it one disk at a time, not all disks at once I thought. >> >> Again, any idea's on why this could be happening would be greatly >> apreciatted. > > It should be doing the rebuild in parallel -but- the IO is done > synchronously. > Is this happening when you've rebooted? FreeBSD does a background fsck on > startup > and this may be interfering. Check the output of ps -auxw to see if fsck's > are running. Hi Thanks for the reply. Good thought, however I have backround fsck disabled. " background_fsck="NO" " (and I double checked :> ) > I took a look at this over the weekend (whilst looking at other stuff in the > storage code) and I could -probably- make the AUFS swaplog parsing case much > faster. I've just got other priorities at the moment (ie, lots more cleaning > up > before I start breaking things in creative ways.) Is this perhaps a recent change? I never noticed this until I upgraded. (from -16 I think) I tried downgrading once after a reboot, however I got the same results when i tried to restart it. But other servers I have, with older revs, don't have this problem. Nicole > > > Adrian > > -- > - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support > - > - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA - -- |\ __ /| (`\ | o_o |__ ) ) // \\ - nmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - Powered by FreeBSD - ------------------------------------------------------ "The term "daemons" is a Judeo-Christian pejorative. Such processes will now be known as "spiritual guides" - Politicaly Correct UNIX Page
