From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263146AbTDLEuK (for ); Sat, 12 Apr 2003 00:50:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263147AbTDLEuK (for ); Sat, 12 Apr 2003 00:50:10 -0400 Received: from [12.47.58.73] ([12.47.58.73]:45598 "EHLO pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263146AbTDLEuK (for ); Sat, 12 Apr 2003 00:50:10 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 22:01:58 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: CaT Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sct@redhat.com, adilger@clusterfs.com Subject: Re: 2.5.66: slow to friggin slow journal recover Message-Id: <20030411220158.28f88097.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030412044840.GA455@zip.com.au> References: <20030401100237.GA459@zip.com.au> <20030401022844.2dee1fe8.akpm@digeo.com> <20030412021638.GA650@zip.com.au> <20030411192413.279f0574.akpm@digeo.com> <20030412023848.GB650@zip.com.au> <20030411195308.11812ee9.akpm@digeo.com> <20030412044840.GA455@zip.com.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Apr 2003 05:01:47.0645 (UTC) FILETIME=[9EE35AD0:01C300B0] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CaT wrote: > > Do you still want the alt-sysrq-m stuff? And is there anything else I > can do? profiling? apply a patch with debugging stuff that'd give you a > clue? etc... Can't think of a lot really. Are you sure that fsck is only running journal recovery? Is it possible that it is performing a full fsck for some reason? Make sure you're running current e2fsprogs? Boot with `init=/bin/sh', run fsck by hand in the background, poke around with `ps' to see what it's up to, etc.