On Friday, November 08, 2013 07:35:18 PM yzb3@xxxxx wrote: > Hello, > > I recently noticed that my boot has become slower - it took around 29s, > while at the beginning it was ~6s. I thought it was an issue with systemd, > because it failed to properly indicate at which stage the slowdown occurred > and how long it took. I rolled back to a pretty fresh root subvolume and > the boot was fast again. However, after several reboots it started lagging > again (10s? preposterous!). I decided to try the *clear_cache* mount > option; it was only a guess, but it did speed the boot to the proper ~6s. > > The question is - why? My filesystem is really small - I see no reason for a > 5x boot slowdown. Is this a known issue? I will be glad to give any > additional details about my fs. Have you tried defragmenting everything, including directory objects? despite of small amount of data, it could be massively fragmented, slowing down everything. HTH -- Regards Shridhar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
