Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 01:56:35 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding a delay before background fsck Message-ID: <20021020065635.GB66757@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3DB25030.20DC0624@mindspring.com> References: <20021019223250.A14311@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3DB25030.20DC0624@mindspring.com>
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In the last episode (Oct 19), Terry Lambert said: > 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"? Unfortunately, priorities do not apply to I/O. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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