On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:28:53 +0200 Xavier Nicollet <nicol...@jeru.org> wrote:
> I can't reproduce this right know, but it seems that creating lots of > snapshots, one per minute (keeping only a dozens of them) may block > the system. Every btrfs snap processes stay idle and the load > skyrockets to 900. > > I use an old version: 2.6.34.5 kernel, and the system is still very > responsive (web and mysql server). I had the same thing happen with a 2.6.36-rc6 kernel on my laptop. My cron jobs were creating snapshots and 5 minute intervals and keeping 12 of them active. I turned off the 5-minute snapshots and I'm now just keeping 4 weekly, 7 daily, and 24 hourly snapshots alive. Pat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
