Am 2015-10-27 um 18:09 schrieb Hugo Mills: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 05:05:55PM +0100, Jakob Schürz wrote: >> Found a new habit... >> >> I have a lot Snapshots on my drive. (Take every 10 Min a new one, every >> houry one, every day one, every system-update, every plugin after >> external HD...) >> >> If there are to much snapshots (didn't find out the count how much >> exactly) balancing fails with a system-freeze. >> if i delete some of my snapshots, balancing is working... > > The whole machine comes to a halt, or just the balancing?
The whole machine. Even magic-sysreq-keys are not reacting... I have to reboot my machine using the power-button... > If you > have lots of snapshots, balance can take *insane* amounts of time -- > my big storage array, for example, takes about 60 seconds to balance a > data block group, and something like 4+ hours to balance some of the > metadata block groups. While it's "stuck" like that, it is actually > making progress, but it doesn't look like it. I know, balancint takes a huge amount of time. So my command is: /bin/btrfs balance start -dusage=55 -v <mountpoint> When balancing is running, the machine reactes a little slower than normal... but in my case, the machine is freezing. completly and totally... :( greez jakob
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