Mikolaj Kucharski <miko...@kucharski.name> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 05:18:15PM +0000, Klemens Nanni wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 04:43:39PM +0000, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote: > > > I have an amd64 based cheap laptop, which has extremly slow I/O and even > > > slower I/O in the installer. The result is, that fsck during upgrade, > > > triggered via sysupgrade -s, takes ages. Basically makes upgrade > > > non-usable. > > > > Resetting the watchdog between fsck runs might help, can you try that? > > > > > Would it be possible to bump it to 60 minutes? > > > > We've deliberately lowered it from 60 to 30 minutes years ago, after the > > the single timeout for the whole upgrade was split and made resettable. > > > So I tested your below diff and I still needed to bump > WATCHDOG_PERIOD_SEC to 45 minutes. I am not insisting on bumping to 45 > minutes, but I don't see any regress by our change. If you think it is an > improvement, then I guess it can go in.
That diff will not go in, because it is just hiding an underlying issue on your specific machine. I detailed some (complicated) steps you could take to learn what the issue is, but if you aren't going to do that we are not going to apply a diff which hurts other people.
