Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:23:58 +1000 From: Sean <sean@gothic.net.au> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Leonardo_M=2E_Ram=E9?= <martinrame@yahoo.com> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fsck_ufs running too often Message-ID: <3729A720-2C8F-4C84-B05A-201394C40D63@gothic.net.au> In-Reply-To: <1340401637.32116.YahooMailNeo@web113519.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1340401637.32116.YahooMailNeo@web113519.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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On 23/06/2012, at 7:47 AM, Leonardo M. Ram=E9 wrote: > Hi, since a few of days ago, I noticed my home server turns very slow = more than once a day, so every time I run "top" to see what's processes = are running, I can see fsck_ufs at the very top, and the hard drive = working like mad. >=20 > I've checked my crontab and there's nothing related to fsck_ufs, where = can I start searching for the cause of the problem?, I thought this = process should run only at boot or shutdown, but this time it is running = -apparently- without a cause. >=20 > =20 Background fsck. Your server crashed, rebooted, started up and fsck is = running in the background while everything else continues. Ways to avoid background fsck: * Disable it completely in /etc/rc.conf: background_fsck=3D"NO". Then = fsck finishes completely before the OS continues booting, so there may = be extended delays if a crash occurs. * Use gjournal so fsck doesn't need to churn over the disks * Turn on softupdates-journaling for a similar effect. The more important thing is to find out why it crashed - if there was a = power outage, hardware or software issue. > uname -a: > FreeBSD server.my.local 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 = 07:46:30 UTC 2012 = root@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >=20 >=20 > Regards, > Leonardo M. Ram=E9 > http://leonardorame.blogspot.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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