fsck way too slow

[Chuck Swiger]

Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> Then, back to the heart of the problem, why does it take so long? It's 
> a 9GB SCSI disk and it should be quite fast, although a bit old; it's 
> speed is for sure enough for day to day work.
> Back in the 5.x times fsck used to last definitely less than 5 
> minutes. After I upgraded to 6.1 (or maybe after 6.0) it started 
> taking nearly an hour. It just sits there for eons, the disk barely 
> working, and printing a line every minute or so.
This may or may not be a problem with FreeBSD 6.x...have you installed a 
diagnostic tool like smartmon and run a disk check?  If the drive is in 
the process of failing, you might experience slowdowns like you've 
described.

Can you "dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null bs=64k" [*] OK and at a reasonable 
speed?  Hit Cntl-T every minute or so...

-- 
-Chuck

[*]: or whatever device your SCSI drive appears at, if not da0.