Excerpts from Simon Kirby's message of 2011-08-03 21:32:10 -0400: > Perhaps as a further clue as to what is going on, on this same backup box > after all of the rsyncs are finished/killed and a good amount of time has > passed (no cleaner processes running in the background or anything), > "sync" is still consistently takes ~4 minutes to run, and pushes out a > lot to disk every time it is run. Example: > > echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > sync > echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > sync > vmstat 1 & > time sync
Just to confirm, the profiling during this time shows your system time is all in rb_next? -chris -- 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