From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 19 23:43:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD33C37B401 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 23:43:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5160843E9C for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 23:43:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0064.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.64] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1839nj-0002Gj-00; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 23:43:04 -0700 Message-ID: <3DB25030.20DC0624@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 23:41:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding a delay before background fsck References: <20021019223250.A14311@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brooks Davis wrote: > Please comment on the following patch to add a delay before starting > background fsck. The issues this addresses is that it takes a long time > to start X or other large apps like mozilla while a background fsck > is running (at least on my laptop). Once they are up and in cache, > performance is slightly bumpy, but acceptable. Thus, being able to set > a delay (I use 120s) to allow those applications to be started, makes > background fsck much more useful. I suspect this feature would also be > useful in aiding recover on servers. Shouldn't running it at idleprio "just work"? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message