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 >> > > > > -- > This is Linux land. On quiet nights you can hear the Windows machines > rebooting. >
-- This is Linux land. On quiet nights you can hear the Windows machines rebooting.
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