fsck_ufs locked in snaplk

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 07:35:37PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> Colleagues,
> 
> one of my servers had to be rebooted uncleanly and then I have backgrounded 
> fsck locked for more than an our in snaplk:
> 
> 742 root         1  -4    4  1320K   688K snaplk   0:02  0.00% fsck_ufs
> 
> File system in question is 200G gmirror on SATA. Usually making a snapshot 
> (e.g., for making dumps) consumes 3-4 minutes for that fs, so it seems to me 
> that filesystem is in a deadlock.

Is the process performing I/O?  Background fsck deliberately runs at a
slow rate so it does not destroy I/O performance on the rest of the
system.

Kris
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