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Re: XFS unhappy with large holey loopback and syncs

To: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS unhappy with large holey loopback and syncs
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:53:17 -0600
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Andi Kleen wrote:


Yep - on x86-64. But the machine had 8GB of RAM, so if even that
runs out of memory something is wrong imho. How large allocations
would it need?

-Andi


28 bytes per extent so in this case rather a lot. This could be compressed some at the cost of bit manipulation when looking up extents. I used to rack my brain about how to make xfs work with a partial in memory extent map.

At least reorganizing the data structure to avoid the large memory
requirement would be good.

You probably didn't see it in the allocator because it was delaying
between retrying the allocate.

Steve


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