Re: [4.4.1] btrfs-transacti frequent high CPU usage despite little fragmentation

2016-03-19 Thread Ole Langbehn
Duncan, thanks again for your effort, I highly appreciate it. On 19.03.2016 00:06, Duncan wrote: > autodefrag Got it, thanks. > Nocow interacts with snapshots. Thanks for presenting that in that much detail. > What can happen then, and used to happen frequently before 3.17, tho much >

Re: [4.4.1] btrfs-transacti frequent high CPU usage despite little fragmentation

2016-03-18 Thread Ole Langbehn
Duncan, thanks for your extensive answer. On 17.03.2016 11:51, Duncan wrote: > Ole Langbehn posted on Wed, 16 Mar 2016 10:45:28 +0100 as excerpted: > > Have you tried the autodefrag mount option, then defragging? That should > help keep rewritten files from fragmenting so heavily, at least.

Re: [4.4.1] btrfs-transacti frequent high CPU usage despite little fragmentation

2016-03-18 Thread Duncan
Ole Langbehn posted on Wed, 16 Mar 2016 10:45:28 +0100 as excerpted: > Hi, > > on my box, frequently, mostly while using firefox, any process doing > disk IO freezes while btrfs-transacti has a spike in CPU usage for more > than a minute. > > I know about btrfs' fragmentation issue, but have a

Re: [4.4.1] btrfs-transacti frequent high CPU usage despite little fragmentation

2016-03-18 Thread Duncan
Ole Langbehn posted on Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:33:46 +0100 as excerpted: > Duncan, > > thanks for your extensive answer. > > On 17.03.2016 11:51, Duncan wrote: >> Ole Langbehn posted on Wed, 16 Mar 2016 10:45:28 +0100 as excerpted: >> >> Have you tried the autodefrag mount option, then defragging?

[4.4.1] btrfs-transacti frequent high CPU usage despite little fragmentation

2016-03-16 Thread Ole Langbehn
Hi, on my box, frequently, mostly while using firefox, any process doing disk IO freezes while btrfs-transacti has a spike in CPU usage for more than a minute. I know about btrfs' fragmentation issue, but have a couple of questions: * While btrfs-transacti is spiking, can I trace which files