Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 00:14:28 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@linux.gr> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is fsck's "slowdown"? Message-ID: <20040903211427.GB1199@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20040903175434.A812@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20040903175434.A812@ganymede.hub.org>
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On 2004-09-03 18:01, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> wrote: > > load: 0.99 cmd: fsck 67 [running] 15192.26u 142.30s 99% 184284k > /dev/da0s1h: phase 4: cyl group 408 of 866 (47%) > > wouldn't it be possible, on a dual CPU system, to have group 434 and above > run on one process, while group 433 and below running on the second, in > parallel? Its not like the drives are being beat up: My intuition says that if metadata of the first part of the disk references data residing on the second part synchronization and locking would probably be a bit difficult; actually very difficult.
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