[Box Backup] No housekeeping?

Peter Hall peter at preacher.se
Wed Feb 1 21:17:50 GMT 2012


Thanks for the reply,

2012/2/1 Chris Wilson <chris at qwirx.com>

> Hi Peter,
>
>
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2012, Peter Hall wrote::    3849197 blocks,   14.68 GB,
> 1% |                |>z
>
>>        Deleted files:  127779108 blocks,  487.44 GB,  52%
>> |********        |
>>          Directories:     451080 blocks,    1.72 GB,   0%
>> |                |
>>           Soft limit:  230400000 blocks,  878.91 GB,  94%
>> |*************** |
>>           Hard limit:  243200000 blocks,  927.73 GB, 100%
>> |****************|
>>  Client store marker: 17851542
>>
>> (I have terminated the client while try to get to the bottom of this
>> problem, so it't not filling up the store.)
>>
>> I know that there is a very large number of small files in the store, and
>> some of those large collections are possibly deleted. Could bbstored be
>> ineffient in deleting large amount of files (rough estimate: 50000-100000
>> in one directory)?
>>
>
> It might be. But I did notice that housekeeping was running for three days
> without finishing in your log. The block counts are not updated while
> housekeeping is running, only when it finishes. So is it possible that
> housekeeping did actually finish and remove enough files to bring the store
> back under the soft limit, and you didn't notice that the block counts have
> finally been reduced?
>
>
>  ERROR:   Housekeeping on account 0x00000001 found and fixed wrong block
>> counts: used (243199923,243199227), old (3849882,3849197), deleted
>> (127779749,127779108), dirs (451091,451080)
>>
>
> That's unusual, but without a complete and detailed log I wouldn't be able
> to diagnose how that happened. In any case the differences are small, so
> it's likely just not accounting for a deletion properly, which is a minor
> bug.
>
> Cheers, Chris.
>
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