Questions tagged [kjournald]

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kjournald reasons for high usage

I'm trying to figure out why is kjournald going crazy on my machine. It's an 8-core box with loads of memory. It's got ~50% cpu load. The iotop doesn't seem to point at any specific processes - some bursts of writes here and there (mostly cron…
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Which kjournald process belongs to which filesystem?

I understand that each mounted ext3 filesystem will have a corresponding kjournald process running. One of those processes is using lots of CPU, and I'd like to know which filesystem is responsible. I have three ext3 filesystems mounted, but the…
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Why is kjournald showing up 700 times in `netstat`?

AFAIK, kjournald is not a network program, but a program that deals with the journal of EXT3 (I am running EXT4 on Ubuntu 16.04). Still, when running sudo netstap -tapn it shows up almost 700 times, connecting to an IP belonging to some company in…
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Why is kjournald extremely active on a mostly quiescent filesystem?

Note: This is a "documenting my process" question that I'll be writing an answer to. Happily, serverfault already helped me solve this, because writing up my situation so others would be able to assess it caused me to realize what was…
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what is an acceptable level of kjournald process time on ubuntu

I was running top on my server and noticed kjournald seemed (to me) to have a high cpu time. My server has been up for ~21 days and I have never noticed triple-digit minutes usage of kjournald before. Is this normal of Ubuntu 8.04 or do I need to…
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kjournald and apache2 hang on xen vps

I have 2 low-traffic wordpress websites on a Debian 7 VPS (1G RAM, 1G SWAP, Dualcore 2.4GHz CPU). Between 5 and 10 days, kjournald hangs, the kernel reports and I/O error and the filesystem (ext3) goes to read-only and an inconsistent state. This…
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Debian - kjournald eats up my CPU and shuts my web server

The kjournald process starts sometimes on my Debian web server. When I run top, the kjournald process eats up 100% of the CPU utilization. After an hour that the process runs, my web server (apache) does not respond anything to requests (my site is…
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