Re: xfs_repair: buf calloc failed (4132 bytes): Cannot allocate memory

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On Wed, 16 May 2007 13:32:28 +1000,
 "Barry Naujok" <bnaujok@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> With 18 million inodes, 1.2TB of space, it will use a lot of memory.
> Assuming you are using a recent xfsprogs (2.8.11 or later), you can
> reduce memory usage by adding "-o bhash=512" which will limit the
> number of buffers cached in xfs_repair. In this scenario, the cache
> will overflow RAM rather easily with the number of inodes to be
> scanned.

Thank you. That did it. xfs_repair was able to complete without memory
error.

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