[solved] Re: Very odd boot delay... BMC problem?

[Bogart Salzberg]

>> Hello all,
>>
>> One of my sc1435 servers stalled for 7 minutes on restart last night
>> and I'm trying to determine the cause.
>
> Could be completely off course here, but could it be an fsck of the
> partition that slowed down the boot? I don't remember off hand where
> exactly in the boot process fsck kicks in. Default setup for
> filesystems has a flag that filesystem should be checked every so
> often. Check the values of "Last checked" and "Check interval" of
> tune2fs -l /dev/md-0 on both "slow" and "quick" systems.
>

Thanks, Misha, you were right.

# tune2fs -l /dev/dm-0

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Last checked:             Wed Apr  8 21:08:12 2009

A look at /var/log/fsck/checkfs confirmed that fsck took more than 6  
minutes to fix a large-ish partition.

Cheers,

Bogart