Re: btrfs-cleaner causing heavy load

2017-07-18 Thread Duncan
Brennecke, Simon posted on Tue, 18 Jul 2017 07:32:12 + as excerpted: > I disabled quotas and seconds later btrfs-cleaner returned to idle. > I will now run a couple of checks and then close this issue. Thanks. Another night-and-day result to chalk up for the next time it comes up on the li

Re: btrfs-cleaner causing heavy load

2017-07-18 Thread Brennecke, Simon
 Hi Duncan, Thanks a lot! I disabled quotas and seconds later btrfs-cleaner returned to idle. I will now run a couple of checks and then close this issue. Regards Simon-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org M

Re: btrfs-cleaner causing heavy load

2017-07-17 Thread Duncan
Brennecke, Simon posted on Mon, 17 Jul 2017 08:03:33 + as excerpted: > I understand that purging snapshots is a complex operation, but we > somehow need to reduce the load this causes during working hours. > Are there any ways to tell btrfs-cleaner to suspend or reduce its > operations? > >

btrfs-cleaner causing heavy load

2017-07-17 Thread Brennecke, Simon
Hi guys, We are facing some issues with a btrfs filesystem on one of our department filers. The problem started pretty much one week ago, when I decided to purge old snapshots. Until then we were doing daily btrfs snapshots to have a quick backup. What then happened was that btrfs-cleaner kicked