Many kjournald processes OS 11.2

Reg_gie · May 1, 2010, 10:19am

My system, setup as a server, has 9 kjournald processes and each one has many worker threads. FOr the most part they just sit idle but I do see one or two occasionally activate with disk activity (which you would expect).

However is 9 processes normal or am I getting stale processes that need to be looked into?

DenverD · May 1, 2010, 11:59am

Reg gie wrote:
> is 9 processes normal or am I getting stale processes that need
> to be looked into?

google is your friend, i say because this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=kjournald turned up this: “Kjournald is
the journaling kernel thread for ext3 filesystem. You should have one
for each mounted ext3 filesystem. Killing the journaling process may
trash the filesystem, the minimum consequence is that the filesystem
switches to read-only mode and you must reboot, run fsck on the
filesystem, and reboot again.” cite:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=92548

don’t get the idea it is not ok to ask questions, because of course it
is ok…but, do try to spend at least one minute in self research
first…then, ask about what you couldn’t figure out from what you
found…