Florian Philipp

Try watching it in Wireshark and compare a normal NFS mount vs. Dolphin.

Regards,
Florian Philipp

I'm seeing the same behavior here.
libreoffice-3.6.6.2 on a mostly stable system.
btrfs on lvm on dmcrypt on a hybrid disk.
kernel 3.7.5 pf-sources.

I don't think is has anything to do with the file system or hardware.
make is eating 200M memory and uses 100% CPU, not mkdir. I guess the
script is just buggy.

Regards,
Florian Philipp

If this is a production server I wouldn't use ext2. In the case of a
crash or reboot, you don't want to loose precious uptime just because of
fsck or corrupted file systems.

Doesn't need to be separate but could prevent a runaway process from
filling /var just because it is spamming log entries. Could also be
achieved with quotas.

If you worry about waste consider bind-mounting both from the same
partition and install quotas to avoid one filling up the other. A bit
like poor-man's btrfs sub volumes.

Since you are using LVM you should also keep some unallocated memory,
start with smaller partitions and monitor usage. A cron job that looks
at `df` and sends a mail when a partition is more than x% full helps a lot.

Restoring from lvm snapshot is like restoring after a black out or
similar crash. Having proper dumps is always a good idea.

Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp

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