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Re: Not enough memory for xfs_repair

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Subject: Re: Not enough memory for xfs_repair
From: Torsten Wolf <t.wolf@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:45:27 +0200
In-reply-to: <1083062025.3431.3.camel@pc9391>
Organization: TU Braunschweig
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On Di, 27 Apr 2004, Christian Guggenberger wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 11:35, Torsten Wolf wrote:
>> 
>> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> 
>several people experienced this, as seen on lkml. (not only with xfs)
>Could you go for a try with 2.4.26 ? (try with the oom killer first,
>then, if it still not works, without the oom killer enabled)

With oom killer enabled, I get

Apr 27 16:36:31 sycorax kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1281 (xfs_repair).

while without oom killer the kernel message is the same as above. And
yes, both runs again on the flaky machine as there is no box around I
could update to 2.4.26.

But let me ask a more fundamental question: Is this the normal behaviour
of xfs_repair to allocate such an amount of memory? Is there a way to
estimate how much memory is needed to recover a damaged filesystem?

Regards,
Torsten


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