Cleanerd is active for about an hour even if I have made small changes to
the file system.
This is more an impression though, not a measurement.
It is not a problem for me, I am just curious.
I imagine that you are looking for a balance between updating the file
system
quickly and having a minimal impact on the system load.
regards, Peter
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Ryusuke Konishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:41:48 +0200, "Peter Smith" wrote:
>> > Wonderful, many thanks, problem solved,  it works
>> > I have just installed nilfs-utils from the git repository.
>> > I am now able to mount my old nilfs partition and cleanerd is happily
>> > working in the background
>>
>> That's really nice ;-)
>>
>> > I have noticed, now and in the past, from my disk activity graphs, that
>> > cleanerd runs for quite a long time after writing to the Nilfs
>> partition. Is
>> > this to be expected?
>>
>> The current cleaner is quite "unsmart"; it selects segments to be
>> reclaimed in fifo order, and cleans them only 2 segments (= 16MB) per
>> 5 seconds by default.
>>
>> So, if you made a massive amount of changes to the file system or keep
>> large volume of snapshotted blocks on disk, that could be possible.
>>
>> If the cleaner never stops even though you leave the file system for
>> many hours, something would be wrong.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ryusuke Konishi
>>
>
>
>
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> This is Linux land. On quiet nights you can hear the Windows machines
> rebooting.
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