Re: xfs_repair on large fs: out of memory

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:23:53PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> I forget the ratio/math for working this out (Steve Lord posted a
> summary of this some time ago) but 1GB isn't nearly enough to run
> xfs_repair on a moderately sized filesystem.

Of course it should still not fail the way you describe with
overcommit.

Is there an rlimit set that is biting you?