Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 15:14:24 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> 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: <20021020151424.A7289@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <3DB25030.20DC0624@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 11:41:52PM -0700 References: <20021019223250.A14311@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3DB25030.20DC0624@mindspring.com>
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--pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 11:41:52PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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. >=20 > Shouldn't running it at idleprio "just work"? It doesn't, at least on my laptop. It may be that this isn't necessicary on disks with reasionable transaction models, but current laptop drives definatly don't qualify. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9syrAXY6L6fI4GtQRAnHBAJ9o//K28TTUh82eDVwR1ObJ60IBeQCfRxzU SiTK3Jgunf73DVJetdXrimU= =IGOs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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