Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 23:41:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding a delay before background fsck Message-ID: <3DB25030.20DC0624@mindspring.com> References: <20021019223250.A14311@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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Brooks Davis wrote: > Please comment on the following patch to add a delay before starting > background fsck. The issues this addresses is that it takes a long time > to start X or other large apps like mozilla while a background fsck > is running (at least on my laptop). Once they are up and in cache, > performance is slightly bumpy, but acceptable. Thus, being able to set > a delay (I use 120s) to allow those applications to be started, makes > background fsck much more useful. I suspect this feature would also be > useful in aiding recover on servers. Shouldn't running it at idleprio "just work"? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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