Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 00:29:30 +0000 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Post 9.1 stable file system problems Message-ID: <CADLo838mUdr96zQw2bTPUFWwUNoF=Zb4akEL6FfasQDOW5tN8A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50E225DF.3090004@bsdforen.de> References: <50E225DF.3090004@bsdforen.de>
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On 1 Jan 2013 00:01, "Dominic Fandrey" <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> wrote: > > I have a Tinderbox that I just updated to the current RELENG_9. > Following the update build times for packages have increased by a > factor between 5 and 20. I.e. I have packages that used to build in > 5 minutes and now take an hour. > > I'm suspecting the file system ever since I saw that the majority of CPU > load was caused by ls when I looked at top (more than 2 minutes of CPU > time were counted that moment). The majority of the time most of the CPU > load is caused by bsdtar, pkg_add, qmake-qt4, etc. Without exception > tools that access a lot of files. > > The file system on which packages are built is nullfs mounted from > an async mounted UFS. I turned async off, to no avail. > > /usr/src/UPDATING says that there were nullfs optimisations. So I > think this is where the problem originates. I might hack the tinderbox to > use 'ln -s' or set it up for NFS to verify this. Is your kernel newer than the Jail? The converse causes problems. Chris
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