Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 11:06:57 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml.diespammer@netfence.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck way too slow Message-ID: <4464A491.5050000@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <44649FA9.6080700@netfence.it> References: <44649FA9.6080700@netfence.it>
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Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Then, back to the heart of the problem, why does it take so long? It's > a 9GB SCSI disk and it should be quite fast, although a bit old; it's > speed is for sure enough for day to day work. > Back in the 5.x times fsck used to last definitely less than 5 > minutes. After I upgraded to 6.1 (or maybe after 6.0) it started > taking nearly an hour. It just sits there for eons, the disk barely > working, and printing a line every minute or so. This may or may not be a problem with FreeBSD 6.x...have you installed a diagnostic tool like smartmon and run a disk check? If the drive is in the process of failing, you might experience slowdowns like you've described. Can you "dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null bs=64k" [*] OK and at a reasonable speed? Hit Cntl-T every minute or so... -- -Chuck [*]: or whatever device your SCSI drive appears at, if not da0.
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