On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 22:44:51 -0400
Allen Briggs <briggs@wasabisystems.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 12:00:31AM +0200, Julio Merino wrote:
> > I have a 3.2gb lfs partition full of sources. Today, the disk has started
> > to spin. If I umount the partition, it stops, but when remounting it, it
> > continues to spin all the time.
> > 
> > I've checked the processes with a top and seen that it's a cause of
> > lfs_cleanerd (it's taking around 30% of load).
> > 
> > What can be happening?
> 
> What sources?  I saw this a while back in NetBSD-current, but the

I posted a message there some days ago, explaining another problem. My system
was panic'ing when cleandir'ing xsrc inside lfs. Although, I recreated the
LFS filesystem with 4096/4096/7 values, and now I have this problem.

> problem I saw was fixed ages (months) ago.  Do you see anything in
> /var/log/messages?

There are some messages:

Sep  9 17:50:32 darkstar lfs_cleanerd[12597]: coalesced 48 discontiguous inodes
Sep  9 17:56:53 darkstar lfs_cleanerd[12601]: new coalescing process, pid 12601
Sep  9 18:07:09 darkstar lfs_cleanerd[12601]: coalesced 47 discontiguous inodes
[...]
Sep  9 19:44:18 darkstar lfs_cleanerd[16578]: new coalescing process, pid 16578
Sep  9 19:45:52 darkstar lfs_cleanerd[16578]: lfs_bmapv: No such file or directory
Sep  9 19:45:52 darkstar lfs_cleanerd[137]: Exiting: reread_fs_info: fstatfs failed: Bad file descriptor
Sep  9 19:45:52 darkstar lfs_cleanerd[16578]: lfs_bmapv: No such file or directory

Thanks.

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