Re: xfs_check running out of memory

["Fong Vang" <sudoyang@xxxxxxxxx>]

if that's the case then why is it running out of memory?  This is a 6.5TB
file systems with millions of files.  The system has 24GB of RAM.  It needs
to hold everything in memory?

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 15:56 -0700, Fong Vang wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > xfs_check on one of my 64-bit server keeps running out of memory
> > checking a
> > 6.5TB file system with millions of files.  xfsprogs is version 2.9.4
> > One of
> > the man pages online mentions a xfs_check64 version but I can't seem
> > to find
> > this anyway.  Where can I find this tool?
> >
>
> Thats an IRIX remnant.  On 64 bit Linux systems, xfs_db
> (and hence xfs_check) will be built as 64 bit binaries.
>
> Use xfs_repair -n, xfs_check does not scale (and will
> hopefully be replaced by xfs_repair -n someday).
>
> --
> Nathan
>
>


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