On Feb 06 2017, Ketil Froyn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed the s3ql that's bundled with Ubuntu 16.04, but I see now
> that this is a fairly old release - v2.15. I've been copying just over
> 100GB of data for a couple of days to an Amazon S3 backed s3ql
> filsystem (yes, my uploads are slow), and now I'd like to finish the
> process and unmount. s3ql.umount has been working for something like 6
> hours now, and the filesystem is still mounted.
>
> I don't think s3ql is hanging, tcpdump shows quite a bit of traffic to
> Amazon's servers, there's a steady upload rate. Is this cached data
> being uploaded after the "cp" process has finished?
Yes, most likely.
> The relevant
> ~/.s3ql/...-cache folder (I only have one) contains 34GB and over 6000
> files, does this matter? It's not shrinking much. Is there a better
> way to monitor what's going on than looking at the size of the cache
> folder?
Did you try running s3qlstat?
> Would upgrading change this, or is this to be expected?
No, this is expected. You need to decrease the cache size if you want to
avoid this (and have cp block instead).
Best,
-Nikolaus
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