Kai Krakow

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> The idea seems to have been copied from filesystems that have mutable extents, and on such filesystems bigger extents are always better. btrfs has immutable extents, so there's an...

I think autodefrag is two-fold. Yes, it slows down IO performance over a period of time. But when disabling it, performance returns to better stats than before enabling it. At...

You should use `make install` instead.

It happened again today with kernel 5.15.23 but this time we could not capture a full backtrace: ``` Mär 23 07:32:34 vch01 kernel: rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU...

I won't be able to get that because the system has been rebooted before I knew about the problem. But a reliable reproducer seems to be to copy 100+ GB...

I was already thinking about such a feature to support running bees only during parts of the day, maybe running it through a systemd timer and giving it even more...

@fnordism I'm currently having two experimental patches which do something similar to your request. They would suspend bees activity during cache pressure and high load conditions, tho they won't give...

These commits have been moved to an experimental branch.

@Zygo If mlock'ing is the problem blocking the kernel from terminating the process, why can't bees just unlock the memory on a kill signal? The next thing it does is...

I'd be fine with that... :-) The current systemd unit does exactly that: It sends SIGTERM first, and only after a timeout if sends SIGKILL (as a fallback measure of...