From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 19 23:56:37 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 CC0FF37B401 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 23:56:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5779343E4A for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 23:56:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) id g9K6uZZh074841; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 01:56:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 01:56:35 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Terry Lambert Cc: Brooks Davis , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding a delay before background fsck Message-ID: <20021020065635.GB66757@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20021019223250.A14311@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3DB25030.20DC0624@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DB25030.20DC0624@mindspring.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 In the last episode (Oct 19), Terry Lambert said: > 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"? Unfortunately, priorities do not apply to I/O. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message