[Box Backup] check fix taking long time

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Dave,

On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Dave Bamford wrote:

> I am doing a check fix on an account which I started last Friday which
> is still running today (Wednesday)
>
> he reason for the check was that housekeeping was not removing
> old/deleted files to make more room. See below

Has housekeeping run on this account? When it runs, does it finish? It 
should have brought the account down below the softlimit.

If you can, please try the very latest code from trunk which allows you to 
run housekeeping manually from the command line with bbstoreaccounts.

> Total CPU time so far is 120 minutes. The backup store is connected via 
> NFS4, is it possible that this may be the cause?

Yes. 120 minutes is not much actual work for 6 elapsed days. It must be 
spending all its time in I/O. You could check that the NFS filesystem is 
mounted with the async option. Box Backup is also not very efficient on 
NFS because it does a lot of small operations. Especially for full-store 
tasks like check and housekeeping. You might want to run those on the NFS 
server instead.

Cheers, Chris.
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