Linux linux.suse 4.4.49-16-default #1 SMP Sun Feb 19 17:40:35 UTC 2017 (70e9954) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
This is on a Dell E6400 notebook, 8Gbyte RAM with a Samsung 850 Pro SSD 512Gbytes. It ran fine under openuse 13.2. In fact I still have an Intel SSD in the notebook with 13.2 installed on it for emergency use. Basically since I put in a second drive, I figured I’d leave the SSD with win7 and opensuse 13.2 alone. The only connection between the 42.2 OS on the Samsung SSD, well other than I can read the Intel drive and also that 2Gbytes of swap on that drive got lumped in with the 8Gbytes of swap I put on the Samsung SSD. (I didn’t spot this in during the install.)
My problem is when snapper or some btrfs program does it’s thing, the notebook is completely unresponsive. When I can manage to get a command into a terminal, I spot 100% cpu usage on snapper or btrfs. Can the btrfs system programs be “niced”? Should I try:
btrfs filesystem defragment [btrfs filesystem path]
or
sudo btrfs scrub start /path/to/filesystem/mount
Reading what I could find on the forum with similar problems, here are some diagnostics.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8126284 3638988 4487296 159268 5204 2697124
-/+ buffers/cache: 936660 7189624
Swap: 10500088 0 10500088
As you can see, I’m using no swap. (10G of swap is comprised on 8G on the Samsung SSD and 2G on the intel. I never hibernate, but figured on the new installation I could afford to “waste” some drive space.
systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 3.158s (kernel) + 3.878s (initrd) + 3.827s (userspace) = 10.864s
Boot time is fine, and it doesn’t lock right after boot. No, that isn’t annoying enough. It locks when I have started to do something.
systemctl list-timers --all
NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED UNIT ACTIVATES
Sat 2017-02-25 00:29:32 PST 23h left Fri 2017-02-24 00:29:32 PST 56min ago systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
Mon 2017-02-27 00:00:00 PST 2 days left Mon 2017-02-20 00:00:01 PST 4 days ago fstrim.timer fstrim.service
I saw a post related to some collision between trim programs on the SSDs, but I don’t think that problem is relevant here.
btrfs device stats /dev/sdb2
[/dev/sdb2].write_io_errs 0
[/dev/sdb2].read_io_errs 0
[/dev/sdb2].flush_io_errs 0
[/dev/sdb2].corruption_errs 0
[/dev/sdb2].generation_errs 0
In theory, the SSD is clean based on above.
btrfs filesystem df /
Data, single: total=30.01GiB, used=20.92GiB
System, single: total=64.00MiB, used=16.00KiB
Metadata, single: total=2.00GiB, used=703.69MiB
GlobalReserve, single: total=240.00MiB, used=0.00B
df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 4055520 4 4055516 1% /dev
tmpfs 4063140 42200 4020940 2% /dev/shm
tmpfs 4063140 2388 4060752 1% /run
tmpfs 4063140 0 4063140 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdb2 71680000 22903788 47580532 33% /
/dev/sdb2 71680000 22903788 47580532 33% /tmp
/dev/sdb2 71680000 22903788 47580532 33% /var/spool
/dev/sdb2 71680000 22903788 47580532 33% /usr/local
/dev/sdb2 71680000 22903788 47580532 33% /var/lib/mailman
/dev/sdb2 71680000 22903788 47580532 33% /var/cache
/dev/sdb3 419824348 67444600 352379748 17% /home
/dev/sdb2 71680000 22903788 47580532 33% /var/tmp
/dev/sdb2 71680000 22903788 47580532 33% /var/lib/mysql
/dev/sdb2 71680000 22903788 47580532 33% /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi
/dev/sdb2 71680000 22903788 47580532 33% /boot/grub2/i386-pc
/dev/sdb2 71680000 22903788 47580532 33% /var/lib/pgsql
/dev/sdb2 71680000 22903788 47580532 33% /.snapshots
/dev/sdb2 71680000 22903788 47580532 33% /var/lib/named
/dev/sdb2 71680000 22903788 47580532 33% /srv
/dev/sdb2 71680000 22903788 47580532 33% /var/lib/mariadb
/dev/sdb2 71680000 22903788 47580532 33% /var/lib/libvirt/images
/dev/sdb2 71680000 22903788 47580532 33% /var/lib/machines
/dev/sdb2 71680000 22903788 47580532 33% /opt
/dev/sdb2 71680000 22903788 47580532 33% /var/log
/dev/sdb2 71680000 22903788 47580532 33% /var/crash
/dev/sdb2 71680000 22903788 47580532 33% /var/opt
tmpfs 812632 12 812620 1% /run/user/1000