Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 15:30:59 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: David Goddard <goddard@acm.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: quotacheck -a taking *ages* on boot Message-ID: <20010204153059.A76405@curry.mchp.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010201232046.009f0930@cerebus.parse.net>; from goddard@acm.org on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:42:33PM %2B0000 References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010201232046.009f0930@cerebus.parse.net>
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On Thu, 01-Feb-2001 at 23:42:33 +0000, David Goddard wrote: > Hi, > > I've been having some problems with my last two buildworlds (18 and 30 Jan) > on a remote machine - the first of these, it took about half an hour > between booting and being able to log in or access any services (i.e. > before sshd and all the other daemons start) and the second was up to about > an hour. Looking through the logs, it seems that the delay comes just > after named starts up - at about the time quotacheck happens. Manually > running quotacheck confirms that this step is taking a looong time. You might want to check PR# 2325 Look in your filesystem for large uids. -Andre > > I have two filesystems with quotas enabled, and df shows that they aren't > particularly full: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > ... > /dev/ad0s1f 6450348 5924 5928397 0% /home > /dev/ad2s1f 13804609 796544 11903697 6% /data > > The number of files on them hasn't increased much over time either, so I > can't work out why my boot times are deteriorating so much. > > They are only IDE drives, but the machine isn't exactly low-spec and I'm > surprised at the amount of time this is taking - the fact that things have > got worse recently raises suspicions in my mind at least. > > I guess I can turn quotas off (I have plenty of space anyway for the time > being) and it's not as if the machine gets booted often, but it troubles > me. Any clues would be appreciated... > > Dave > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD: We eat penguins for breakfast To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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