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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
> 
> 
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